Rosenstock_Maskette

3D Model

Description by Dennis C. Curry [In Maryland Archeology Month, April 2011: Facing the Past for Maryland’s Future, p. 6.]

This small maskette or human face was found during excavations at the Rosenstock site on the Monocacy River in Frederick County, Maryland. This Late Woodland village dates to circa A.D. 1400. The maskette is carved from steatite and was found in a sheet midden. The face depicted on the maskette appears to be unfinished (lacking at least the final smoothing), and drill holes started at the top and bottom of the artifact are uncompleted. The unfinished drill holes indicate that the object was intended as a pendant which would have hung from a cord inserted through the central axis of the maskette.