Polished celt of clear quartz crystal
Unknown people (Southeast)
Southeast
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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