Artifact Number:
 B.08228

Object:
Sinker, perforated
Poio

Material:
 STONE

Dimensions:
 8.6 x 6.36 x 5.25 cm

Origin:
 Saipan, Marianas Islands, Micronesia

Comments:
 Pear-shaped fishing sinker, plummel, with hole drilled through the very top into the side. Marbled color of white and dark grey. Conglomerate. Similar sinkers are described in BPBM Bulletin 100, p. 48 (Archaeology of the Marianas Islands).



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