Point, Chipped Stone
Item number 5704 from the The Burke: University of Washington.
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Description
Triangular,concave base arrow heads. Remarks: Number of specimens in upper left corner was recorded by Frank Barnett, who checked the material in 1939, working at the museum as a volunteer.* NOTE: 3 Points were exhcanged to Grant County PUD, 6/5/1970. See accn file. (9/22/1993, DH) Previous counts show 247 points, of which 73 have been located and examined. These are mostly chert points. There are 26 lanceolate, 4 lanceolate (tear-drop base), 34 triangular, 5 Plateau pentagonal knives, and 1 triangular barr drill made of chert. Items not made of chert include one petriried wood triangular point, one basalt triangular point, and one triangular obsidian point. (6/95) *Information is from the original accession ledger.
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Purchase from Dr. R. E. Stewart
Geographical Search Terms
Eastern Washington Klickitat County Lower Columbia North America Pacific Northwest Plateau Washington State Western United States
Item History
- Collected by Dr. R.E. Stewart on November 8, 1905
What
- Name
- Point, Chipped Stone
- Identification Number
- 5704
- Type of Item
- chipped stone point
- Material
- chert stone and obsidian stone
- Manufacturing Technique
- bifacially flaked
- Overall
- length 0.0 cm, width 0.0 cm, height 0.0 cm, diameter 0.0 cm, circumference 0.0 cm, weight 0.0 g
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Who
- Field Collector
- Dr. R.E. Stewart
When
- Collection Date
- on November 8, 1905
Other
- Accession Number
- 40
- Collection
- Burke Museum Archaeology Collection
- Object Count
- 73
- Excavated By
- Stewart, Dr. R.E.
- Status
- Parts Gone
- Object Category
- Stone
- Object Sub Category
- Stone, Chipped
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