Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Requires Photography

Bowl

Native American, Munsee Delaware
Prehistoric
about 1340
Object Place: Between Matamoras and Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania, United States, Upper Delaware Valley, Eastern (Northeast) Region

Medium/Technique Stone
Dimensions 5.4 x 10.8 x 8.9 cm (2 1/8 x 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line American Decorative Arts Curator's Fund
Accession Number1993.619
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsVessels

DescriptionEgg-shaped coarse stone with slightly squared bowl cavity.
Provenance1962, excavated on the property of Marie Zimmermann (36-Pi-14), in the area of the proposed Tocks Island Reservoir between Matamoras and Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania and acquired by Lyman Vandermark (b. 1909 - d. 1978), Port Jervis, NY [see note]; sold by Vandermark's widow to Glenn Del Gaizo, Stockholm, NJ; 1993, sold by Glenn Del Gaizo to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 27, 1993)

NOTE: This excavation, led by Lenape Chapter 12 of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology, is discussed by David J. Werner, "The Zimmermann Site: 36-Pi-14," in Archeology in the Upper Delaware Valley, by W. Fred Kinsey, III (Harrisburg, PA, 1972), pp. 55-130. Lyman Vandermark assisted at the site.