Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of the Vassar Brothers Institute (an educational society in Poughkeepsie, New York); donated to MAI by the Vassar Brothers Institute in 1948.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Late Archaic Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Vassar Brothers Institute
- Donor
- Vassar Brothers Institute
- Date created
- 3000–1000 BC (Late Archaic period)
- Object Name
- Bannerstone (throwing stick/atlatl weight)
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Ground, drilled
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
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