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Object number2017.51.2 a-c

Date13000-3000 BC

OriginHickory, PA

MediumHardboard (Masonite); Stone; Adhesive; Paper; Ink; Plastic

Credit LineGift of Robert Mungai

DescriptionDisplay board with 104 mounted projectile points and two projectile points detached from the top left corner of the board. Rectangular brown hardboard (Masonite) backer. Stone projectile points of various sizes, colors, and shapes are adhered to the board in sixteen (16) groups. Each group is labeled with a rectangular white paper label with printed text. Most projectile points are directly labeled with a circular colored plastic sticker with handwritten identification number. Reverse of board is undecorated.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth (a): 21.188 × 31 × 0.5 in. (53.8 × 78.7 × 1.3 cm)
Height x Width x Depth (b): 1.938 × 1.125 × 0.25 in. (4.9 × 2.9 × 0.6 cm)
Height x Width x Depth (c): 2.625 × 1.125 × 0.313 in. (6.7 × 2.9 × 0.8 cm)
InscriptionsWhite paper group labels with printed text are, from left to right, top to bottom:
“Miller Lanceolate / Pre-Clovis Paleoindian”;
“Miller Lanceolate / Preform / (Probable) / Pre-Clovis Paleoindian”;
“Kirk Stemmed / Early Archaic”;
“Lost Lake / Early Archaic”;
“St. Charles / Early Archaic”;
“St. Albans Side Notched / Early Archaic”;
“Kirk Serrated / Early Archaic”;
“LeCroy Bifurcated Stem / Early Archaic”;
“Lake Erie Bifurcate / Early Archaic”;
“Amos / Early Archaic”;
“Palmer Corner- / Notched / Early Archaic”;
“Charleston / Early Archaic”;
“Kirk Corner Notched / Early Archaic”;
“Thebes / Early Archaic”;
“Thebes / (Possible) / Early Archaic”;
and “Raddatz Side Notched / Middle Archaic”.
Historical NotesPart of a collection of surface-collected lithics that was acquired after the death of the collector, Nello Mungai of Hickory, Pennsylvania, through a donation by his son Robert Mungai also of Hickory. Nello Mungai (1920-2012) was a farmer and a friend of Meadowcroft founder Albert Miller. According to his son Robert, Nello had a particular skill in spotting lithic artifacts that had surfaced while working his farm fields. He was frequently observed stopping his tractor, getting off, and picking up a projectile point he spotted while driving across the field. This collection was assembled from artifacts he found on his farm. It includes two Miller Lanceolate points following the original Miller point recovered at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter in 1976. In 1978, during the University of Pittsburgh’s summer field school excavations in the Cross Creek drainage, excavations were conducted on the Mungai farm.

Collector Nello Mungai (1920 - 2012)

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