Stone Chisel, Falls Island, Cobscook Bay, Maine

Object/Artifact

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Dennys River Historical Society

Stone Chisel, Falls Island, Cobscook Bay, Maine: Image by Colin J Windhorst from the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 22-51-10/A5466.
Stone Chisel, Falls Island, Cobscook Bay, Maine

Image by Colin J Windhorst from the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 22-51-10/A5466.

Name/Title

Stone Chisel, Falls Island, Cobscook Bay, Maine

Description

A stone chisel with a written inscription: "Indian Chisel, Falls Island, Cobscook Bay, Maine", from the Benjamin Lincoln Collection at the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.

Context

This tool is part of a collection of native American lithic and faunal artifacts assembled by members of the Lincoln family from Dennysville, Maine, during the nineteenth century, and subsequently donated to the Peabody Museum at Harvard University.

Collection

Benjamin Lincoln Collection at Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

Web Links and URLs

Falls Island and the Reversing Falls