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A Birdstone Fragment from New York City

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Julius Lopez
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A few weeks prior to the bulldozing of a segment of the Schurz site (Lopez 1955), in the southeast corner of the Bronx, within the city limits of New York, a salvage dig was conducted by Harry Trowbridge, George Younkheere, Stanley Wisniewski, Theodore Kazimiroff, and Wayne Arnold under the writer's direction.

One of the items found was a polished birdstone frag’ ment (Fig. 1) which deserves special mention since so few effigies of this sort have been discovered hereabouts.

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American Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , April 1957 , pp. 422 - 423
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1957

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