Grooved Stone Axe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Numerous
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: A stone axe, marked with this number, "Norris", and "WV" is found in the collection, but there is another stone axe, also marked with this number, "Norris", and "WVa" at the Peabody Museum, Philips Academy, in Andover, MA (per email from Bonnie Sousa, Registar, on 8/19/2011). The catalog card seems to indicate that there should be only one axe with this number, so one of the two axes is probably misnumbered. On the axe here at NMNH, the writing of the number looks like it may have been "refreshed". Also, other items in this collection have an old paper tag glued onto them with a field number and this one does not (the one at the Peabody Museum does have remnants of a paper label, but the field number itself is missing). Therefore, it seems likely that this axe at NMNH is not the original 90518. The original number is unknown. The axe at the Peabody may have been part of an exchange with the USNM in March 1937, when Neil Judd sent a portion of the Norris collection and other artifacts from the Mid-Atlantic. However, this particular catalog number is not included on the shipping invoice (see accession file), so this is not certain.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kanawha Valley, West Virginia, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 014255
label: USNM Number
content: A90518-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Axe