Spear foreshaft (Image withheld)
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- Date created
- probably AD 1400–1600
- Culture/People
- probably Thule Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Excavator
- Junius Bird (Junius Bouton Bird), Non-Indian, 1907-1982
- Expedition
- Ford-Bartlett East Greenland Expedition (1930)
- Expedition leader
- Captain Robert A. Bartlett (Robert Abram Bartlett), Non-Indian, 1875-1946
- Expedition sponsor
- James Bishop Ford (James B. Ford), Non-Indian, 1844-1928
- Collection History
- Excavated by anthropologist Junius Bird (1907-1982) in 1930 during the Ford-Bartlett East Greenland Expedition, led by Captain Robert A. Bartlett (1875-1946) and sponsored by MAI and MAI trustee James B. Ford (1844-1928).
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- Place
- Grave; Clavering Island; Northeast Greenland National Park; Tunu (East Greenland); Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)
- Island Name
- Clavering Island
- Island Grouping
- Greenland Islands
- Geographical Areas
- Eastern Arctic
- See related items
- Thule Tradition (archaeological culture)
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 17/9324
- Barcode
- 179324.000
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
- Object Name
- Spear foreshaft (Image withheld)
- Media/Materials
- Animal Bone
- Techniques
- Carved, drilled
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_191133