Nephrite celt in antler socket

Unidentified Swiss Lake Dwellers maker
Locras, Lake Bienne

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Bronze Age

Nephrite

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

163.9.14902

Geography

Place Found: Switzerland, Europe

Period

3000-2000 BCE

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Archaeology

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Dr. Victor Gross and Arnold Henry Guyot (1807-1884); Dr. Glenn Lowell Jepsen (1903-1974), Department of Geology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; acquired by the present collection in Exchange no. 127, 1963.

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