Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Marion Eppley (1883-1960, a US Navy captain during World Wars I and II and founder of the Eppley Laboratory of Newport, Rhode Island, makers of precision scientific instruments); donated to MAI by Mr. Eppley in 1929.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Late Archaic Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Marion Eppley, Non-Indian, 1883-1960
- Donor
- Marion Eppley, Non-Indian, 1883-1960
- Date created
- 3000–1000 BC (Late Archaic period)
- Object Name
- Knife blade
- Media/Materials
- Banded slate
- Techniques
- Pecked, ground
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
