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Object number2017.51.7

OriginHickory, PA

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

Credit LineGift of Robert Mungai

DescriptionDisplay board with 148 mounted projectile points. Rectangular brown hardboard (Masonite) backer with twelve holes around the perimeter. Stone projectile points of various sizes, colors, and shapes are adhered to the board in nine (9) groups. Each group is labeled with a rectangular off-white paper label with yellow color band across top and printed text. Reverse of board is undecorated.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 23.063 × 25.063 × 0.5 in. (58.6 × 63.7 × 1.3 cm)
InscriptionsOff-white paper group labels with printed text are, from left to right, top to bottom:
“FLINT / RIDGE”;
“TEN / MILE”;
“DNONDAGA”;
“UPPER / MERCER”;
“IRONSTONE”;
“OOLITHE / CHEV+”;
“SILICIONS / SHALE”;
“DELAWARE”;
and “UNION / TOWN”.

Black handwritten text along top edge of board at center “TOP”.
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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