Mano
Object number2017.51.13
OriginHickory, PA
MediumStone
Credit LineGift of Robert Mungai
DescriptionStone mano. Overall rectangular shape with one end rounded and the other end flat rough stone; edges are rounded. Gouges and abrasions on stone surface. Two larger faces are gary in color and the two smaller faces has a red tone to the medium gray stone. Scattered white and black surface deposits.DimensionsLength x Width x Depth: 5.25 × 2.5 × 2.375 in. (13.3 × 6.4 × 6 cm)Historical NotesTool held in hand for the grinding of meal and flour. Part 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
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