**Originally Listed At $300**

Native American, Midwestern United States, Eastern Woodland, Archaic Period, ca. 8000 to 1000 BCE. A hand-carved axe head or hand axe of a broad form with a thick butt end, a bifacial blade head, and a smooth groove that encircles most of the head, about three quarters of the width around. The groove was used for attaching the stone to a short handle with fibrous twine or leather straps to use as an axe, and the rounded butt could be used as a hammer. Size: 5.25" L x 3" W (13.3 cm x 7.6 cm)

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Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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#173040

Old wear from use, losses to blade end and abrasions as shown. Light earthen deposits on surface. Old inventory label.