Steatite Bowl
Unknown people (Woodlands)
Northeast Woodlands
about 1000 BCE-contact
Steatite
Overall: 5 13/16 × 15 3/4 × 9 5/8 in. (14.8 × 40 × 24.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Francis D. Bennett
182.2.26305
Geography
Place Found: Leominster, United States, North America
Object Name
Artifact
Research Area
Archaeology
Not on view
Exhibition History
American Ancients: Prehistory in the United States, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Sandwich, Massachusetts, May 11, 1984-November 1985.
Provenance
Uncovered by plow in Leominster, Massachusetts, in 1910; Francis D. Bennett, Cortland, New York; given to present collection, 1982.
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