| The Davistown Museum |
| The Ancient Dominions of Maine: An Archaeology of Tools |
| | Native American Artifacts |
| The following listing of Native American artifacts has been divided into Archaic, Ceramic, Historic and 20th |
| Century eras. We are not certain of the exact dating of many of the artifacts and the differentiation between |
| Archaic and Ceramic may represent our best guess. Museum visitors are encouraged to provide feedback on the |
| identification, age or use of any artifact as the museum does not have a resident expert in this field. |
| | Status | Location |
| Native American Artifacts I - Archaic Period |
| Bone Tools |
| 62504NA1 | Burnisher | DTM |
| Bone, 7" long, 1 1/4" wide, unsigned. |
| Ceramics |
| 090603NA16 | Pottery shards (3) | DTM | MHC-B |
| Coiled ceramic, A.) 9.3 cm x 5.6 cm, B.) 8.4 cm x 4.4 cm, C.) 3.7 cm x 3.4 cm. |
| These were formerly in the Suzanne Nash Collection. |
| 090603NA7 | Scrapers (3) | DTM | MHC-B |
| Clay with a fossilized shell interior, A.) 15 cm x 2 cm thick, B.) 14.2 cm x 2 cm, C.) 10.2 cm x 2 cm. |
| These were found in the bottom of a carpenter's tool chest. |
| Other |
| TAB1008 | Honing stone | DTM |
| Gray sandstone, 10" long, age unknown. |
| Curved with distinctive marks from years of use. Probably used for honing bone awls and other bone tools. Coastal New |
| England provenance. |
| Red Paint |
| 110103NA52 | Red ochre rock (?) | DTM | MHC-C |
| Possibly red ochre, 4 cm. |
| This item is part of the Cohasset Hoard. It has a waist in the middle all the way around. |
| 011304NA10 | Red Paint cup and scrapers (4) | photo | DTM |
| Wapanucket 8 Hoard |
| Quartz and other stone, 3 1/4" long paint cup, 1 3/8" to 1 1/4" long points, case marked "BS"2 - 1971 M39-81", cup marked "B- |
| 5012-2" scrapers marked "B-5013-2; B-5014-2; B-5015-2". |
| This paint cup would be used with the scrapers and the Red Paint pestles (ID# 011304NA1) to create red paint powder. |
| 011304NA1 | Red Paint globules (6) | photo | DTM |
| Wapanucket 8 Hoard |
| Stone (red ochre), 1 1/4", 1", 1", 3/4", 3/4", 5/8". |
| Red paint was traditionally made of ochre, a reddish mineral obtained from natural deposits of oxidized iron (hematite). These |
| specimens are ready for grinding into red ochre powcer in a paint cup (see ID# 011304NA10). These have a Taunton Mass. |
| area provenance. |
| Stone Tools |
| 090603NA14 | Adze (gouge) | DTM | MHC-B |
| Stone, 11.1 cm x 4.7 cm. |
| This item is part of the Cohasset Hoard. It has "Plymouth" written on it. |
| N1303 | Adze(?) | DTM |
| Stone, 5 3/4" long, 1 3/4" wide. |
| Age unknown. This tool was found in a ship carpenter's tool box, all by itself. |
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