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Birdstone

Gallery Location
Not on View
Maker
Indigenous Ontario
Medium Stone (banded slate)
Geography
Ottawa, Ontario
Date 1500 BC-800 AD
Dimensions 3.9 x 9.9 x 2 cm
Object number NS41451
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).

Birdstone
Birdstone - ROM2019_17217_73
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