Stone, Nutting
Object number2017.51.11
OriginHickory, PA
MediumStone
Credit LineGift of Robert Mungai
DescriptionNutting stone. Generally traingular in shape. Overall mottled medium and light gray stone with tiny embedded crystals. One face has eight hemispherical indentations. The other face has five and a half hemispherical indentations; the half is connected to one of the other indentations. Small bored holes scattered on stone (the holes are less than 1/8-inch in diameter).DimensionsLength x Width x Depth: 8.625 × 6.5 × 3.5 in. (21.9 × 16.5 × 8.9 cm)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)
On View
Not on view
c. 1905
1975-1980
