Boatstone (throwing stick/atlatl weight) (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- 200 BC–AD 400 (Middle Woodland period)
- Culture/People
- possibly Hopewell (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Robert Day, Non-Indian, 1836-1914
- Previous seller
- Sotheby's Auction House (Sotheby Parke-Bernet/Parke-Bernet)
- Previous owner
- William Ockleford Oldman (W.O. Oldman/William Ockelford Oldman), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
- Seller
- William Ockleford Oldman (W.O. Oldman/William Ockelford Oldman), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
- MAI agent
- George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; acquired at an unknown date by Robert Day (1836-1914, an Irish collector of antiquities); purchased by William Ockleford Oldman (1879-1949, who did business as "W.O. Oldman, Ethnographical Specimens, London") in 1913 from an auction held by Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge (London, England); purchased by George Heye from W.O. Oldman in 1913.
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- Place
- Tennessee; USA
- See related items
- Hopewell (archaeological culture)
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 3/4817
- Barcode
- 034817.000
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
- Object Name
- Boatstone (throwing stick/atlatl weight) (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Pottery
- Techniques
- Modeled, grooved, drilled
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_36878