Slingstone
Unidentified Taíno maker
Pre-Columbian
Stone
Overall: 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Ellis Ormsbee Briggs, Class of 1921W
160.32.14531
Geography
Place Made: La Caleta, Dominican Republic, Caribbean, Central America
Object Name
Artifact
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Lt. Col. Charles Leroy Youmans (1898-1960), Class of 1920 (non-graduate); given to Ellis Ormsbee Briggs (1899-1976), Class of 1921; to his wife, Lucy Barnard Briggs (1903-2001), 3 Pleasant Street, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1960.
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