Celt (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 900–1600 (Early Mississippian to Late Mississippian period)
- Culture/People
- possibly Central/Middle Mississippian (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Excavator
- Clarence Bloomfield Moore (C.B. Moore), Non-Indian, 1852-1936
- Previous owner
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University)
- Seller
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University)
- Collection History
- Excavated by archaeologist Clarence B. Moore (1852-1936) in 1910 or 1911; donated to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by C.B. Moore soon afterward; purchased by MAI from the Academy of Natural Sciences with other C.B. Moore collection materials in 1929.
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- Place
- Johnson Place, Mississippi River; Tunica County; Mississippi; USA
- See related items
- Central/Middle Mississippian (archaeological culture)
- Woodworking tools
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 17/2039
- Barcode
- 172039.000
- Object Type
- Woodworking tools
- Object Name
- Celt (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Ground
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_184308