Native American, Midwestern to Southern United States, Eastern Woodland, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A fine gathering of hand-carved stone artifacts including 3 spheres and an oblong discoidal. Each of the stone spheres is carved into a relatively uniform shape that could easily roll across the ground, and each stone features hues of either sandy beige, mottled olive green with black and white inclusions, or smoky copper and light brown. The discoidal features a shallow impression on one face opposite a convex face. Carved stone pieces like these may have served as game pieces for a throwing game known as chungkey or chunkey. Size of largest: 4.1" Diameter (10.4 cm)

Provenance: private Brevard, North Carolina, USA collection

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#171087

Each piece has light abrasions and nicks commensurate with age and the carving process, otherwise intact and very good. Nice preservation to overall forms. Old inventory number handwritten in black on each artifact.