Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI in 1916 from C. F. Libbie Book and Art Auctioneers (Boston, Massachusetts).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Maritime Archaic Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Auction venue
- C.F. Libbie & Co. Book and Art Auctioneers (C.F. Libbie and Company)
- Date created
- 4000–1800 BC (Middle to Late Archaic period)
- Object Name
- Fishing line sinker or net weight/sinker
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Ground, grooved
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
