| Object ID |
T0264 |
| Object Name |
Comb |
| Description |
Seneca Bone Comb;
Medium/Materials: Bone;
Marks: Center front at base near the teeth there is a pattern of finely incised lines consisting of a horizonal line from which project a number of diagonal lines slanting downward to the right proper.; |
| Dimensions |
H-3 W-3 inches |
| Early Date |
1670 |
| Late Date |
1687 |
| Place of Origin |
Victor, Ontario County, NY, USA |
| People |
Seneca Iroquois/ |
| Provenance |
(1) Harry L. Schoff. Possibly excavated from Boughton Hill near Victor, New York (1670-1687) in 1930s.;
(2) Lester and Clarence Bill. Canandaigua, New York.;
(3) F. Llewelyn Casterline (1897-1983). Belmont, New York.;
(4) Jonathan Holstein. Cazenovia, New York. Eugene V. Thaw 8 April, 1990;
(5) Eugene V. Thaw.;
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| History |
Scholarly Attributions:
[1] Letter from George Hamell - 16 April 1994 - "I had seen this comb and, I believe, the following combs [W009 [T25], W010 [T264]], when they were in the possession of Lew Casterline. How problematic is their attribution to the Boughton Hill site? Note, they are undoubtedly not from the adjacent Fort Hill site, which has produced little cultural material and certainly no burials which were the probable archeological contexts of these combs. For some reason, I recall that these combs were excavated from a post-Boughton Hill site - perhaps the one which Clarence Bill himself owned. I recommend further research of their provenance in the notes of Charles F. Wray and Donald G. Cameron at the Rochester Museum and Science Center. .. W010[T264] A fragment of a similar human figure with hand upraised was excavated on the Boughton Hill site during the 1980s by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historical Preservation and is in the collections of the State Historic site on the property." |
| Used |
Seneca Iroquois |
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