Object Details
- Collection History
- Formerly in the collection of Christian F. Schuster (1868-1957, a collector and amateur archaeologist in Holyoke, Massachusetts) and possibly collected by him when he lived with the Blackfeet in the 1920s; donated to MAI by Christian Schuster in 1953.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Plains Archaic Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Christian F. Schuster (Christian Friedrich Schuster/C. F. Schuster), Non-Indian, 1868-1957
- Donor
- Christian F. Schuster (Christian Friedrich Schuster/C. F. Schuster), Non-Indian, 1868-1957
- Date created
- 4000 BC–AD 700 (Middle to Late Plains Archaic period)
- Object Name
- Maul/Hammer head
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Ground, grooved
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
