Polished celt of clear quartz crystal

Unknown people (Southeast)
Southeast

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Prehistoric

Quartz

Overall: 5 1/2 × 1 13/16 × 1 9/16 in. (13.9 × 4.6 × 4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III

181.2.26328

Geography

Place Found: Ouachita River Valley, United States, North America

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Funerary Objects

Native American

Not on view

Provenance

Caddo Trading Post, Glenwood, Arkansas; sold to Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.

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