Unidentified Wooden Object

One small and unusual wooden (or possibly bone) object that resembles some type of finial. The body is a tapered cylinder with a rounded half-circle top. The cylindrical exterior has four lines of decorative reeding. The half-circle top has a partial black coloring, perhaps paint or dye, along the top in a wide band, with a paper-thin cut slit following within the colored area. The interior is hollow and does not have visible threading.

• Object number

  59.10

• Dimensions

  Height 0.59 inches

  Diameter 0.34 inches

• Decoration

  Rilled (Reeded)

  Painted

• Color

  Black

  Brown

• Animals/objects

  Unidentified

• Patterns

  Indeterminate

• Category

  Unidentified

• Class

  Flora

• Material

  Wood

• Context

  Lot 12, Test Cut F: Overburden and Wooden Floor of Most Recent Building (624.59)

• Techniques

  Cut/Carved