Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
Source URL: https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/birdstone-72
North American, Native American
Birdstone, between 1500 and 500 BCE
slate
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Artist North American, Native American
Title
  • Birdstone
Date between 1500 and 500 BCE
Medium slate
Dimensions Overall (by sight): 1 × 4 × 1 1/2 inches (2.5 × 10.2 × 3.8 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Clarence E. Wilcox Fund
Accession Number 1983.30
Department Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
On View Native American S131, Level 1 (see map)
Provenance
1983, found by Dorothy Cook (Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA) in Washtenaw County, Michigan;
1983-present, purchased 1983 by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)