Pictograph

Object/Artifact

Vermont Historical Society

Name/Title

Pictograph

Entry/Object ID

1954.283.74

Description

Flat, rectangular piece of slate incised on one face with a pictograph. The image consists of a drilled hole surrounded with radiating lines. A vertical line extends downward from the hole, ending at the point of a triangle with one curved side (possibly representing a bow and arrow. There is a horizontal line across the bottom.

Context

Collected by Emma P. Sampson

Acquisition

Accession

1954.283

Source or Donor

Beals, Marguerite E.

Acquisition Method

Gift

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Region

New England

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Pictograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Material

Stone

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Sampson, Emma P. Merrill (1865-1953)