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History of Inventions USNM 53 Aboriginal American Sculpture 02

History of Inventions USNM 53 Aboriginal American Sculpture 02

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No. 6. Implements roughed out by flaking and finished by abrading processes,
85,276, 116,272, 147,668
No. 7. Highest type of form and finish by this process. Porto Rico, West Indies 16,902
No. 8. Celt showing work in representing a human figure. Elementary life-form sculpture. Santo Domingo 220,.535
No. 9. Implement roughed out by pecking. Georgia 170,895
No. 10. Pecked implement, partly smoothed surface. Georgia 170,333
No. 11. Highly finished stone ax worked into shape by pecking. West Virginia 90,512

No. 12. Stone hammer, showing rude sculpture by pecking. Elementary stage of life-form sculpture. Alaska.

No. 6. Implements roughed out by flaking and finished by abrading processes,
85,276, 116,272, 147,668
No. 7. Highest type of form and finish by this process. Porto Rico, West Indies 16,902
No. 8. Celt showing work in representing a human figure. Elementary life-form sculpture. Santo Domingo 220,.535
No. 9. Implement roughed out by pecking. Georgia 170,895
No. 10. Pecked implement, partly smoothed surface. Georgia 170,333
No. 11. Highly finished stone ax worked into shape by pecking. West Virginia 90,512

No. 12. Stone hammer, showing rude sculpture by pecking. Elementary stage of life-form sculpture. Alaska.

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1922
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Walter Hough (1922). Synoptic series of objects in the United States National Museum illustrating the history of inventions. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2404). 1-47, 56 pl.
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