MAKE A MEME View Large Image Native North American - Bird Figure - Walters 2006155 - Side.jpg A nearly identical bird form in the British Museum has been classified as a counter weight for an atlatl or throwing stick This weapon used widely throughout the Americas ...
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Keywords: Native North American - Bird Figure - Walters 2006155 - Side.jpg A nearly identical bird form in the British Museum has been classified as a counter weight for an atlatl or throwing stick This weapon used widely throughout the Americas served as a simple extension of the arm allowing the user to hurl a short spear with greater force The drilled holes on the underside of the bird form would have been used to attach it to the atlatl with twine between 1500 1000 BC late Archaic blackstone cm 10 16 l accession number 2006 15 5 5711 Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation John Stokes as agent March 28 2006 by purchase Arte Primitivo New York as agent Walters Art Museum Gift of the Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation 2007 place of origin Hopewell/Tremper Mounds at Ohio USA Walters Art Museum license Pre-Columbian art in the Walters Art Museum Atlatl weights Hopewell artifacts Tremper Mound and Earthworks
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