Gorget (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- 200 BC–AD 500 (Middle Woodland period)
- Culture/People
- probably Hopewell (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Possible excavator
- Colonel Bennett H. Young, Non-Indian, 1843-1919
- Previous owner
- Colonel Bennett H. Young, Non-Indian, 1843-1919
- Seller
- Colonel Bennett H. Young, Non-Indian, 1843-1919
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of and possibly excavated by Colonel Bennett H. Young (1843-1919, Confederate cavalry officer, amateur archaeologist, and author of works on Kentucky archaeology); purchased by George Heye from Colonel Young in 1915.
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- Place
- Rush County; Indiana; USA
- See related items
- Hopewell (archaeological culture)
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 4/7608
- Barcode
- 047608.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Gorget (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Slate
- Techniques
- Ground, drilled
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_51492