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Stone Tool
- Material
- MINERAL/ROCK-BASALT;
- Description
- Triangular dark brown and grey stone tool with one pointed end, a wider body, and one narrow end.
- Other Names
- Spear head
- Projectile point
- Category
- TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Sub-Category
- ARMAMENT, EDGED
- Description
- Triangular dark brown and grey stone tool with one pointed end, a wider body, and one narrow end.
- History Of Use
- Mr. Johnson had worked for the Liquor Control Board for 25 years in 1974. He was an active Elks member and helped with the building of the Senior Citizens Home. This projectile point is made from the mineral basalt. It is impossible to distinguish a dart, a spear or arrow without the shaft. The rock has been chipped to form sharp edges. The wafer thin blades were removed vertically from the core by pressure flaking. When it became dull, more chips around the edge were flaked off. Very likely most of them were laterally set in grooves along the edge of bone, wood or antler shank to form a projectile point and also used single for incising, shaving and very fine whittling.
- Material
- MINERAL/ROCK-BASALT;
- Height
- 1.7
- Width
- 3.7
- Length
- 8.2
- Units Of Measurement
- Centimeters
- Accession No.
- 1982.31.2
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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