Banner stone (Atlatl Weight)
Unknown people (Woodlands)
Northeast Woodlands
about 5000-2000 BCE
Greenstone
Overall: 4 3/4 × 2 3/16 × 1 in. (12 × 5.5 × 2.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Donald Richmond, Class of 1917
170.50.24967
Geography
Place Found: United States, North America
Period
5000-4000 BCE
Object Name
Artifact
Research Area
Archaeology
Not on view
Exhibition History
The Age of the Marvelous, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 2-November 24, 1991; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 25-March 22, 1992; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, May 24-August 25, 1992; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 6, 1992-January 3, 1993, naturalia no. n393.
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