Native American, North America, United States, Archaic Period, ca. 5000 to 1000 BCE; Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, ca. 300 to 900 CE. A fine selection of 5 hand-carved stone tools. First is a set of 2 porous stone beaters, 1 in the shape of an enlarged phallus or human head, and the other bearing an abstract zoomorphic head; both with smooth beater faces. Next is a preform bannerstone, carved from mottled beige-hued stone with cream, gray, and black inclusions, with a partially drilled cavity on one side. A slender burnishing stone is shaped from dark gray stone and has a string-cut groove along the curved face and a stunningly smooth burnishing face. The largest piece is a Maya bark beater with vertically incised striations meant for gently pulverizing and smoothing tree bark into usable material for clothing. Size of largest (bark beater): 2.625" W x 3.4" H (6.7 cm x 8.6 cm)
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Provenance: private Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA collection; ex-Dr. David Harner collection, Springdale, Arkansas, USA, acquired between the 1950s and 1960s
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Condition
All items have minor abrasions, with small nicks to pounders and bannerstone, otherwise intact and very good. Great surface smoothness throughout.