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Object Number 84-6-10/34958
Display Title Grizzly bear teeth pendants, fragments.
Descriptions
Object Description Organic, tooth fragments, one canine, charred, 2 perforations on one.
Inventory Description Organic, tooth fragments, one canine, charred, 2 perrorations on one.
Classification
  • Bone
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Ohio / Ross County / <City> / Liberty Earthworks; Ohio State Site # 33RO22
Intrasite Edwin Harness Mound; from the first and second excavations by the schoolboys
Additional Geographic Terms Liberty Township; Scioto River, 3 km east of, on second terrace
Materials Tooth
Dimensions Overall: 5.7 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm (2 1/4 x 9/16 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 34958
Provenance
Collector Prof. Frederic Ward Putnam (9/25/1884-10/12/1884)
Collector Dr. Charles L. Metz (9/25/1884-10/12/1884)
Expedition Peabody Museum Expedition (11/01/1884)

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Grizzly bear tooth pendant.
84-6-10/34959 Grizzly bear tooth pendant.
Bone
Liberty Earthworks; Ohio State Site # 33RO22
Grizzly bear tooth pendant.
84-6-10/34957 Grizzly bear tooth pendant.
Bone
Liberty Earthworks; Ohio State Site # 33RO22
Perforated teeth of grizzly bear, black bear and wolf.
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Ornament
Switzerland
Image Not Available for Teeth of grizzly bear, perforated
84-6-10/34956 Teeth of grizzly bear, perforated
Liberty Earthworks; Ohio State Site # 33RO22
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Ornament
St. Aubin
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Ornament
Switzerland
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Ornament
Canada
United States
Organic, worked antler fragments, some tines, some hollowed at one end; antler fragment; worked antler cylinders; animal bone fragments; worked animal bone fragment, possible perforator; worked bird bone fragment, cut and polished, possibly incised; rodent teeth fragments; animal tooth, likely bear; gastropod shell; some fragments crossmend
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Faunal Remain
Utilized Antler
Faunal Remain
Faunal Remain
Utilized bone
Hahn's Field
Bears tooth, drilled. Carnivore teeth, possible small canine.
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Ornament
St. Aubin
Bear tooth with two perforations
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Utilized bone
Raw Material
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Awl of penis bone of grizzly bear.
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Awl
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