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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Native American; American Indian
Title:Bifaces; Projectile points; Arrowheads
Type:Fishing/Trapping/Hunting
Materials:Chert and quartz
Place Made:North America; United States; Massachusetts; Duxbury
Accession Number:  MH SK K.132
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College
 

This object is under review for NAGPRA-sensitivity.

Recent updates to NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) require consent from lineal descendants and/or affiliated Native American Tribes or Native Hawaiian Organizations before displaying or researching cultural items. We have removed the public image of this belonging until we can learn more about the wishes of affiliated Tribal officials or the descendants of those who made it.

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Description:
Five arrow points: 4 black, 1 crystal (white quartz?). Handwritte note: Black chipped Indian stones of Northeast are petrosilex (sp?); pokyrite (sp?) (lava); white crystals are feldspar. Source is Marble Head Quarry. Any black quartz is basanite (sp?) touchstone or lydianstone (ite?). "No flint in America" per George B. Frazar.

Tags:
ancient; archaeology; indigenous people; Native American

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