Discoidal (Game Stone)

CultureLate Mississippian, Woodruff or Fargo County, Arkansas

Date1300-1500

MediumQuartzite

DimensionsOverall: 3 × 4 1/4 inches (7.62 × 10.8 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: Mr. and Mrs. Henry I. Marder Fund

Object number2017.6

On View

Not on view

Collections

North American Indian Art

Terms

DescriptionRounded disc shaped "apple style" piece of yellow-brown banded quartzite with light and dark inclusions and small cups or dimples on either side.Provenance

Provenance

Purchased from Steve Repp by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.

Published References

Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

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