Large Banded Slate Gorget, Likely North Carolina

Gray with horizontal blue lines, shaped, with a drilled suspension hole on either end. Perhaps this ornament is in its finished form, but it could have been intended to be polished. Presented in a Riker mount.

8 1/8 in.

Collection of the late Thomas A. Mustian, Jr., Rocky Mount, NC

Intact with natural weathering from exposure.