Bannerstone
Gallery Location
Daphne Cockwell Gallery dedicated to First Peoples art & culture
Maker
Indigenous Ontario
Medium
Banded slate
Geography
Tuscarora, Ontario
Date
6000-2500 BC
Dimensions
8 × 6 × 2 cm
Object number
NS2029
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: Archaeology of the Americas
Description
Archaeologists continue to debate the precise function of bannerstones. Many think that they functioned as atlatl, or spear-thrower, weights; others assign them a ceremonial or symbolic function.
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