Red Jasper Blade, Dennysville, Maine

Object/Artifact

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Dennys River Historical Society

Red Jasper Blade, Dennysville, Maine, front: Image by Colin J Windhorst from the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 22-51-10/A5469.
Red Jasper Blade, Dennysville, Maine, front

Image by Colin J Windhorst from the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 22-51-10/A5469.

Name/Title

Red Jasper Blade, Dennysville, Maine

Description

Red jasper blade, approximately ten inches long and four and a half inches wide, in two sections, from the Benjamin Lincoln Collection at the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, 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