- Name:
- Stone bowl (miniature grinding or pigment bowl)
- Description:
Artifact Type: Stone bowl (miniature grinding or pigment bowl)
Material: Fine-grained sedimentary stone (likely sandstone or siltstone)
Manufacturing Technique: Pecked and ground interior with smoothed exterior
Condition: Intact overall; interior bowl cracked with minor surface loss
Size: Approximately 2.5 inches diameter
Form / Edge Type: Rounded exterior with hemispherical interior cavity
Function: Grinding pigments, medicines, or plant materials
Cultural Period: Woodland – Mississippian (approx. 1000 BCE – 1500 CE)
Find Location: Tennessee River Valley region (exact location unknown)
- Accession Number:
- 2024.1.206
- Prior Inventory Number:
- MAS1389
- Collection:
- Sub Collection:
- Category:
- Anthropology
- Keywords:
- Pigment bowl, Stone bowl
- Object Size (LxWxH):
- 2" x 2" x 1.25"
- Type/Materials:
- Sandstone
- Origin Continent:
- North America
- Origin Country:
- United States
- Origin State/Province:
- Unknown
- Origin City/Town:
- Unknown
- Date/Era:
- Quarternary Period (0-2.6m years)
