Ear Spool
Unknown people (Southeast)
Southeast
Prehistoric
Lithic
Overall: 7/8 × 2 9/16 in. (2.3 × 6.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26347B
Geography
Place Found: Muscle Shoals, United States, North America
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Funerary Objects
Not on view
Provenance
Caddo Trading Post, Glenwood, Arkansas; sold to Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.
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