Bifacial tool/projectile point (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- 6000-3000 BC (Middle Archaic period)
- Culture/People
- probably Middle Archaic Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Harry L. Johnson (Henry Lewis Johnson/H. L. Johnson), Non-Indian, 1859-1940
- Auction venue
- C.F. Libbie & Co. Book and Art Auctioneers (C.F. Libbie and Company)
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Harry L. Johnson (1859-1940, a collector and surveyor employed by archaeologist Warren K. Moorehead); purchased by MAI in 1916 from C. F. Libbie Book and Art Auctioneers (Boston, Massachusetts).
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- Place
- Near Carthage; Cumberland River; Carthage; Smith County; Tennessee; USA
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 4/9227
- Barcode
- 049227.000
- 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_53059