Polishing stone
- Date created
- probably AD 1450–1785 (Early to Late Plains Village period)
- Culture/People
- probably Plains Village Tradition: Numakiki (Mandan) (archaeological) (attributed)
- Excavator
- George F. Will (George Francis Will), Non-Indian, 1884-1955
- Herbert J. Spinden (Herbert Joseph Spinden), Non-Indian, 1879-1967
- Previous owner
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
- Collection History
- Excavated by archaeologists George F. Will (1884-1955) and Herbert J. Spinden (1879–1967) in 1905 when they were undergraduates at Harvard University; part of the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) until 1908 when it was acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
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- Place
- Double Ditch Village site, Missouri River; Bismarck; Burleigh County; North Dakota; USA
- See related items
- Plains Village Tradition: Numakiki (Mandan) (archaeological)
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 1/9628
- Barcode
- 019628.000
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Object Name
- Polishing stone
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Polished
- Record ID
- NMAI_20984