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Object number2017.51.3

Date200 BC-1000 AD

OriginHickory, PA

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

Credit LineGift of Robert Mungai

DescriptionDisplay board with 81 mounted projectile points. Rectangular brown hardboard (Masonite) backer. Stone projectile points of various sizes, colors, and shapes are adhered to the board in eighteen (18) 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 written on sticker. Reverse of board is undecorated.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 23.188 × 24.938 × 0.5 in. (58.9 × 63.3 × 1.3 cm)
InscriptionsWhite paper group labels with printed text are, from left to right, top to bottom:
“Chesser Notched / Middle-Late Woodland”;
“Garver’s Ferry / Late Middle Woodland”;
“Kiski Notched / Late Middle Woodland”;
“Jack’s Reef Corner Notched / Middle-Late Woodland”;
“Steuben Expanded Stem / Middle-Late Woodland”;
“Levanna / Late Woodland”;
“Hamilton Incurvate / Late Woodland”;
“Raccoon Notched / Early Late Woodland”;
“Jack’s Reef Pentagonal / Late Woodland”;
“Unknown Distal / Fragment”;
“Madison / Late Woodland/Early / Mississippian”;
“Fort Ancient / Late Woodland/Early / Mississippian”;
“Unknown Expanding / Stem”;
“Unknown Side- / Notched”;
“Unknown Corner / Notched”;
“Unknown Stemmed”;
“Unknown Serrated”;
and “Unknown Side / Notched/Bifurcate / Base”.
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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