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Object Number
31-14-10/A7451
Display Title
Bone needle
Descriptions
Object Description
The long lighter brown color tool is also from a metacarpal (less likely from a metatarsal). It was carefully split off down the length of the bone and modified/shaped both proximally (ground and polished) and distally (a "hook" carved into the end). There is a small form (sub-species) of white-tailed deer called Florida Key deer, Odocoileus virginianus clavium, that is today found only on the Florida Keys. It is both smaller and lighter in weight, meaning that it is more gracile. Perhaps this tool came from that form, although I cannot be at all sure about that.
Inventory Description
Organic, bone perforator
Classification
- Perforator
Department
Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
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Florida
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Brevard County
/
Melbourne
Materials
Bone , Deer?
Dimensions
Overall: 22.4 x 1.1 x 1.4 cm (8 13/16 x 7/16 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
A/7451
Credit Line
Gift of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1931
Provenance
Provenance
E. P. Singleton
(1928)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31-14-10/A7450 | Bone awl |
Perforator
|
Melbourne
| |
| 29-1-10/A6296 | Perforated bone object |
Utilized bone
|
Melbourne
| |
| 34-25-40/7680 | Bone, animal |
Faunal Remain
Raw Material |
Magdalenska Gora
| |
| 01-32-10/57116 | Bone implement made from a metacarpal or metatarsal bone of deer |
Utilized bone
|
Wetherill Mesa Pueblo; Mesa Tierra; LA 17220
| |
| 01-32-10/57103 | Bone awl made from metacarpal or metatarsal of deer |
Perforator
|
Wetherill Mesa Pueblo; Mesa Tierra; LA 17220
| |
| 78-64-40/16692 | Bone awls; Bone shards and metatarsals of rabbit |
Utilized bone
|
Switzerland
| |
| 72-20-40/7007 | Pelvis fragment of female deer (cervid) |
Faunal Remain
|
Concise
| |
| 2000.30.3.1 | Thumb piano |
Unclassified
|
Botswana
| |
| 971-2-50/11554 | Thumb piano, wooden base with metal projections (keys) of different sizes; metal |
Percussion
Raw Material |
Africa
| |
| 29-34-30/F780C | Pick-up stick |
Utilized bone
|
Peru
| |
| 21-11-10/87652.1 | Paddle belonging to dugout canoe 21-11-10/87652 |
Paddle
|
California
| |
| 38-44-10/12869 | Necklace of eagle talons, "splint bones" from deers' legs and metacarpals |
Necklace
|
Utah
|