Bifacial tool/projectile point
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected or purchased from local residents in 1915 by archaeologist George Hubbard Pepper (1873-1924, MAI staff member) during the Nacoochee Mound Expedition, led by George Heye and funded by George Heye and the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- 3000 BC-AD 1600 (Late Archaic to Late Mississippian period)
- Catalog Number
- 4/2817
- Barcode
- 042817.001
- Culture/People
- probably Multiple archaeological cultures (attributed), including Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian Traditions
- Collector
- George Hubbard Pepper (GHP), Non-Indian, 1873-1924
- Expedition
- Nacoochee Mound Expedition (1915)
- Expedition leader
- George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
- Expedition sponsor
- George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
- Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), 1879-1965
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Object Name
- Bifacial tool/projectile point
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Flaked/chipped
- Place
- Ivylog; Union County; Georgia; USA
- See related items
- Multiple archaeological cultures
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Record ID
- NMAI_46203
