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Birdstone

Gallery Location
Not on View
Maker
Indigenous Ontario
Medium Ground stone, meta-rhythmite
Geography
Lambton, Ontario
Date 1500 BC-800 AD
Dimensions 4 × 3.5 × 8.5 cm
Object number NS120
Department Art & Culture: Archaeology of the Americas
Description

Birdstones are enigmatic objects found in the Great Lakes region of the current-day United States and Canada. Their function remains uncertain, but many scholars believe that they were used as weights on spearthrowers (atlatls). This example is missing its head.

Birdstone
Birdstone - ROM2019_17216_41
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