Preform Stone Tool, Dennysville, Maine

Object/Artifact

Dennys River Historical Society

Preform stone tool, Dennysville, Maine

Image by Colin J Windhorst from the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 97-20-10/52251.

Name/Title

Preform Stone Tool, Dennysville, Maine

Description

A preform stone tool, of what appears to be red jasper, showing marks of chipping and flaking, labelled Dennysville, Me., 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