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THBAn Elongated Slate Long Neck Birdstone From Monroe County, Michigan, From the Collection of Jan Sorgenfrei, Ohio
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LiveSep 21, 2018
Cowan's Fall American Indian and Western Art: Premier Auction features Hopi katsinas from the collection of Charles McNutt, Sr., a Pueblo Shield and award winning contemporary pottery from the Collection of William & Putzi Saunders and prehistoric artifacts from the Jan Sorgfrei Collection Cowan's Auctions dawnie@cowans.com
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- Lot Description
Glacial Kame Culture, Late Archaic - Early Woodland Period, 3000-500 B.C.
Monroe County, Michigan
length 5.75 in.made from an attractive green-banded slate which flows with the contours of the body; intact red ocher deposits are within the perforations; grinding marks visible on the underside of the neck and beak.
Found in the 1970s or 1980s at a site known as Rieger No. 1, named for its discoverer. This site, which also contained two copper gorgets, was studied and published on, by David M. Stothers and Timothy J. Abel in Archaeology of Eastern North America (1993).
Publications:
Archaeology of Eastern North America, Volume 21 (1993: 78)Collection History:
Mr. Rieiger, Monroe, Michigan
Steve Fuller, Wooster, Ohio
Jim Ritchie, Toledo, Ohio
Jan Sorgenfrei, Findlay, Ohio
From the Collection of Jan Sorgenfrei, Findlay, OhioThe condition is perfect with no significant chips or flaws.Condition
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