Bifacial tool/projectile point (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 900–1600 (Early to Late Mississippian period)
- Culture/People
- probably Central/Middle Mississippian (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- New Bedford Whaling Museum (Old Dartmouth Historical Society)
- Donor
- New Bedford Whaling Museum (Old Dartmouth Historical Society)
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of the New Bedford Whaling Museum (Old Dartmouth Historical Society, New Bedford, Massachusetts); donated to MAI by the New Bedford Whaling Museum in 1966.
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- Place
- Calhoun County; Illinois; USA
- See related items
- Central/Middle Mississippian (archaeological culture)
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 23/8888
- Barcode
- 238888.000
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Object Name
- Bifacial tool/projectile point (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Flaked/chipped
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_254366