Grooved Stone Axe

Unknown people (Woodlands)
Northeast Woodlands

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Prehistoric

Stone

Overall: 6 1/8 × 2 9/16 × 9/16 in. (15.5 × 6.5 × 1.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the George Gustav Heye Museum, New York, New York

15.7.1744

Geography

Place Found: York, United States, North America

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Archaeology

Not on view

Provenance

Sherman collection, York County, Pennsylvania; George G. Heye, The Heye Museum, New York (no. 5168); acquired through Exchange Number 4, 1915.

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