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Object number2017.51.4

Date3000 BC-700 AD

OriginUnited States of America

OriginHickory, PA

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

Credit LineGift of Robert Mungai

DescriptionDisplay board with 95 mounted projectile points. Rectangular brown hardboard (Masonite) backer. Stone projectile points of various sizes, colors, and shapes are adhered to the board in seventeen (17) 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.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 24.875 × 25.375 × 0.5 in. (63.2 × 64.5 × 1.3 cm)
InscriptionsWhite paper group labels with printed text are, from left to right, top to bottom:
“Vosburg Corner Notched / Late Archaic”;
“Bottleneck Stemmed / Late Archaic”;
“Merom Expanding / Stem / Late Archaic”;
“Lamoka / Late Archaic”;
“Perkiomen Broad / Transitional Archaic”;
“Susquehanna Broad / Transitional Archaic”;
“Adena Stemmed / Early Woodland”;
“Genesee / Terminal Archaic”;
“Robbins / Early Woodland”;
“Cresap Stemmed / Early Woodland”;
“Meadowood / Early Woodland”;
“Kramer Stemmed / Early Woodland”;
“Bennington Quail / Tail / Middle Woodland”;
“Snyders / Middle Woodland”;
“Murphy’s Stemmed / Middle Woodland”;
“Lowe Flared Base / (Possible) / Middle Woodland”;
And “Lowe Flared Base / Middle Woodland”.
MarksWhite paper label adhered to reverse in top left corner has printed text “4’ x 8’ x 1/8” / TEMPERED / SERVICE / [barcode] / MADE IN USA”.
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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