Awl/perforator (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 1400–1700 (Late Mississippian period)
- Culture/People
- probably 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 1909 or 1910; 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
- Jones Place (Vernon Paul site), Saint Francis River; Cross County; Arkansas; USA
- See related items
- Central/Middle Mississippian (archaeological culture)
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 17/2486
- Barcode
- 172486.000
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Object Name
- Awl/perforator (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Deer bone/bones
- Techniques
- Carved
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_184407