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Ohio

We have 187 objects listed as from Ohio. None have been previously culturally affiliated. Of these objects, there is only information for three to suggest that they are likely funerary objects: a bone tool found in a mound and two cloth/fabric remnants in plaster removed from the Westerhaver Mound.

The rest of the objects were removed from Ohio generally, or from one of the following counties: Adams, Allen, Athens, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Columbiana, Darke, Delaware, Erie, Franklin, Greene, Guernsey, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Lake, Licking, Logan, Lorain, Lucas, Mahoning, Marion, Medina, Meigs, Mercer, Miami, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Noble, Ottawa, Paulding, Pickaway, Pike, Portage, Preble, Putnam, Ross, Scioto, Seneca, Summit, Washington, Wayne, Williams, Wood, and Wyandot.

Object types include: ground stone adzes, ground stone axes, bannerstones, bar atlatl weight, basket, bell shaped pestle, biconvex discoidal stones (chunkey stones), birdstones, boatstones, celts (stone, copper, limonite), effigies (stone), galena cube, gorgets, moccasins, net sinker, obsidian core, pendants (steatite, slate, stone), pestles, pipes (antler, effigy, stone, banded slate, claystone, effigy, iron, micmac type, monitor type, platform, sandstone, steatite, stone and lead), stone tools (bifaces, blades, cache blades, chisels, drills, eccentrics, flakes, knives, gouge, hoes, projectile points, tubes), trilobite fossils, and a plaster case of a Hopewell stone mask. 

We welcome the opportunity to consult over, and culturally affiliate, any of these objects. You can request a complete excel list by emailing Jessica Yann at yannjess@msu.edu.

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