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North American Cultures Jade & Polished Stone Artifacts Jade, Turquoise, and Other Stones from the North American Cultures, including: Archaic, Anasazi, and Inuit |
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Archaic
Cultures Stone Stone Objects from the Archaic Cultures of North America |
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STEATITE - soapstone bowl from Caldwell County, North Carolina - 174mm high by 260mm in diameter with a wall thickness that varies from 14.6mm thick near the rim to 21.mm thick in the base. The flat-bottomed globular shape is uncommon, as are the double-engraved lines just below the rim. From the Jim Simmons collection. Archaic Period |
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Two soapstone vessel rim sherds from the Conowingo site with incised exterior decorations. North Eastern Maryland, US
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Bannerstone, ca. 2000 B.C. Archaic peoples; Ohio Banded slate; H. 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm) The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection |
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Anasazi Stone Stone Objects from the Anasazi/Puebloan Culture of the Southwestern North America |
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Jet (Coal) & Turquoise Frog figure reported found at Pueblo Bonito Chaco Canyon site |
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Anasazi turquoise Cylinder Basket Covering (covered container is Lost). Height 16 cm. In the 10th century, Chaco Canyon emerged as a major processing center of turquoise, converting the raw material imported from New Mexico into finished exports. Other exported manufacturers seem to have been pottery, macaw feather products, wicker or basketry, copper bells, sea shell trumpets, wooden effigies, etc. American Museum of Natural History, New York |
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Turquoise beads from Pueblo Bonito, Chaco
Canyon - Beads were a prestige good as well as a medium of exchange. Average
dia. 4-5 mm. We are not sure of the population of the pueblos, and their
many rooms may have been only periodically used for ceremony, or for a
system of food redistribution, or for turquoise processing and other
manufactures. American Museum of Natural History, New York |
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Olivella shell beads and black and white stones necklace from a sealed wall niche in the Great Kiva, Chetro Ketl, Chaco Canyon. Length 400 cm. American Museum of Natural History, New York |
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Chaco Canyon, deer bone ceremonial spatulae,
inlaid with turquoise and jet. American Museum of Natural History, New York |
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Anasazi Chaco Canyon Turquoise Pendant |
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Other American Indian/Amerind Aboriginal Cultures
Stone Stone Objects from the Inuit Cultures of North America |
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Hawk effigy platform pipe; Illinois, Naples; 1-400 A.D.; pipestone; 3 3/8 x 4 5/16 inches |
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Soapstone elbow pipe with wooden stem - The pipe of Pitikwahanapiwiyin, or Poundmaker, leader of the Plains Cree From Saskatchewan, North America |
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Inuit Cultures
Stone Stone Objects from the Inuit Cultures of North America |
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Inuit carving (height -
12.5 cm).
R.V. Dietrich collection. |
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Carving of a
walrus, soapstone - Canada, Northwest
Territories, Cape Dorset; Inuit
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