Ground Stones-Pipes

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Title Ground Stones-Pipes
Identifier 9966
Subject Indian Artifacts--Ground Stones-Pipes
Description Pipe, unfinished, material-gypsum, conical in shape. Length 3.25 in. Diameter 1 3/8 in. Found in duchesne County by Walter Atwood. Length 9.3 cm, width 4.2 cm. Tapered hole with definite grinding marks in large end-Diameter 1 cm, (1/2 in.) Depth 1.4 cm (5/8 in). This shoes both pecking and grinding--dark gray, very fine grained dense stone. Mr. Thorne called these objects unfinished pipes--perhaps because nothing else seemed appropriate.
Type Image
Format image/jpeg
Format Creation Original scanned on Epson Perfection 4990 Photo Scanner and saved as compressed tiff. display images generated in CONTENTdm as JPEG2000 at 15:1 compression
Source B&W Negative
Language eng
Rights Management Digital Image, copyright 2013 Uintah County Library Regional History Center
Holding Institution Uintah County Regional History Center
Archival Resolution 2328 X 2293 pixels
Bit Depth 8 bit
Scanning Device Epson Perfection 4990 Photo Scanner
Scanning Technician Ellen S. Kiever
Spatial Coverage Vernal (Utah)
Donor Leo C. Thorne/Lawrence DeVed/Kathy Lindsey
Website https://uintahhistory.org
ARK ark:/87278/s6614fq1
Setname ucl_tp
ID 409101
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6614fq1
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