Bifacial tool/projectile point (unfinished)
Object Details
- 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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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- probably AD 1600–1800
- Catalog Number
- 17/9414
- Barcode
- 179414.000
- Culture/People
- probably Tunumiit [East Greenland] (archaeological) (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
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Object Name
- Bifacial tool/projectile point (unfinished)
- Media/Materials
- Slate
- Techniques
- Ground
- Place
- Turf house; Site C, Clavering Island; Northeast Greenland National Park; Tunu (East Greenland); Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)
- Island Name
- Clavering Island
- Island Grouping
- Greenland Islands
- See related items
- Tunumiit [East Greenland] (archaeological)
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Record ID
- NMAI_192050
