Ax
Object number2017.51.20
OriginHickory, PA
MediumStone
Credit LineGift of Robert Mungai
DescriptionFull-grooved stone axe, broken. Overall flat rectangular shape with narrow neck near wider end; this neck is an indented band with slightly higher border ridges. Other end is broken and darker in tone. One face is light gray and other face has dark gray and red-pink inclusions; overall has tiny crystal inclusions. White and brown surface deposits.DimensionsLength x Width x Depth: 4.125 × 2.875 × 1 in. (10.5 × 7.3 × 2.5 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.1850
Samuel Rosenberg
2013
Houze Glass Company
