Black slate; vermillion pigment

Engraved slate with vermillion rubbed in engraving.

Recto: 2 figures frontal; proper right: hold staff with feathers; proper left: figure has square head, holds a cross on a staff in one hand and upright forked implement in other hand. Stands on a ground line. Animal (weasel?) engraved vertically. Verso: rows of rectangles (some with dots inside)

Cory Willmott, Alan Corbiere, Adrianna Grecci Green and David Penney conducted research on site at the Peabody Museum for Archaeology and Ethnology in July 2007 with help from Susan Haskell and Patricia Capone of the PMAE. Cory Willmott's research was funded by a grant from the American Philosophical Society. Al Corbiere was supported through Ruth Phillips's SSHRC Canada Research Chair Funding. An internal grant from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville provided Cory with an RA, Ceara Horsley, for 2009 and 2010 to work on GRASAC data entry. (CW & CH)