Polishing Stone
97-563-6694
From: New Mexico | San Jose River Region
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 97-563-6694 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Ancestral Pueblo |
| Provenience | New Mexico | San Jose River Region |
| Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Stone |
| Description | Oval stone with smooth surfaces, including one side with a flat and smooth surface used to burnish pottery or polish mud floors. Made from fine-grained, igneous rock. |
| Length | 7.5 cm |
| Width | 4.6 cm |
| Thickness | 2.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number | L-563-6694 - Old Museum Number | 20171 - ANSP Number | I 1017 - Gottschall Number |
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