Object Details
- Collection History
- Excavated in 1935 by archaeologist Godfrey J. Olsen (1906-1964) during fieldwork sponsored by MAI and Stephen Hyatt Pelham Pell (1874-1950, a historian, collector, and founder of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum in Ticonderoga, New York).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Late Archaic Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Excavator
- Godfrey J. Olsen, Non-Indian, 1906-1964
- Expedition sponsor
- Stephen H. P. Pell (Stephen Hyatt Pelham Pell), Non-Indian, 1874-1950
- Date created
- 3000–1000 BC (Late Archaic period)
- Object Name
- Bannerstone part/fragment (throwing stick/atlatl weight)
- Media/Materials
- Slate
- Techniques
- Ground, drilled
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
