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Lot Description

A Large Adena Flint Ridge Blade

Adena Culture, Early Woodland Period, 800 B.C. - A.D. 1

Ohio

A large thin blade, expertly knapped from colorful blue, cream, and gold flint ridge flint.

length 8-1/4 inches

Has been broken and glued.

Property from The John Baldwin Trust, Chicago, Illinois

COLLECTION HISTORY

John Baldwin, West Olive, Michigan
Ken Spaulding, Ionia, Michigan
Charles Miles, California
Warren Moorehead, Xenia, Ohio

G.I.R.S. Certificate of Authenticity Registrar No. L3, dated 4/12/1981, signed by Earl Townsend, Max Shipley, Gordon Hart, Kenneth McNeal

PUBLISHED

1981-1982 Indiana Archaeological Society Yearbook (1983: 17)

Baldwin, John. Early Knives & Beaded Sheaths of the American Frontier (1997: 2)

Hothem, Lar. Indian Artifacts of the Midwest: Identification and Value Guide (1991: 153, 205)

Miles, Charles. Indian and Eskimo Artifacts of North America (1965: 175, fig. 7.78)

Ohio Archeologist, Vol. Spring, No. 3 (2000: back cover)

Prehistoric Art - Archeology, Vol. XV, No. 4 (1980: 55)

Prehistoric Art - Archeology, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (1983: back cover)

Prehistoric America, Vol. XL, No. 1 (2006: cover, 15)

Thompson, Ben W. Who's Who in Indian Relics, Vol. 6 (1984, 24)

Thompson, Ben W. Who's Who in Indian Relics, Vol. 7 (1987, 39)

Condition Report

All paperwork we have are copies of the originals.

Has been broken and glued.

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