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DEACCESSIONED January 12, 2023
Plumb bob
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
6.98 x 2.22 x 1.59 cm (2 3/4 x 7/8 x 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
American Decorative Arts Curator's Fund
Accession Number1993.620
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsTools and equipment
DescriptionSmoothly polished dark stone. Elongated almond shape with rounded knob at one end.
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 1]; 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); January 12, 2023, deaccessioned by the MFA for repatriation to the Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians, and Stockbridge Munsee Community [see note 2].
NOTES:
[1] 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, an amateur archaeologist, assisted at the site.
[2] In a letter received November 21, 2022, representatives of the Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians, and Stockbridge Munsee Community (collectively, the Lenape Tribes) requested the return of eleven cultural items in the MFA collection (former accession nos. 1993.611-1993.621), which had been taken from a Lenape burial site when they were excavated in 1962. The MFA repatriated them to the Lenape Tribes as Unassociated Funerary Objects pursuant to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
NOTES:
[1] 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, an amateur archaeologist, assisted at the site.
[2] In a letter received November 21, 2022, representatives of the Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians, and Stockbridge Munsee Community (collectively, the Lenape Tribes) requested the return of eleven cultural items in the MFA collection (former accession nos. 1993.611-1993.621), which had been taken from a Lenape burial site when they were excavated in 1962. The MFA repatriated them to the Lenape Tribes as Unassociated Funerary Objects pursuant to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).