Axe blade/spud (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 1300-1500 (Middle to Late Mississippian period)
- Culture/People
- possibly South Appalachian Mississippian (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Judge Claude Ulysses Stone (Claude U. Stone), Non-Indian, 1879-1957
- Earl C. Townsend, Jr., Non-Indian, 1914-2007
- Seller
- Earl C. Townsend, Jr., Non-Indian, 1914-2007
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Judge Claude Ulysses Stone (1879-1957, an Indian artifact collector in Peoria, Illinois); subsequently in the collection of Earl C. Townsend, Jr. (an attorney and artifact collector in Indianapolis, Indiana); purchased by MAI from Earl Townsend in 1953.
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- Place
- Oconee County; South Carolina; USA
- See related items
- South Appalachian Mississippian (archaeological culture)
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 22/1682
- Barcode
- 221682.000
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Object Name
- Axe blade/spud (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Ground, drilled
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_236540