Object Details
- Collection History
- Excavated in 1929 by Louis Schellbach III (1887-1971) during MAI-sponsored fieldwork.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Multiple archaeological cultures (attributed), including Plains Archaic, Plains Woodland, and Plains Village Traditions and Shoshone
- Excavator
- Louis Schellbach, III (Don Louis Schellbach III), Non-Indian, 1887-1971
- Date created
- 1000 BC–AD 1800 (Late Plains Archaic to post–Contact period)
- Object Name
- Harpoon head
- Media/Materials
- Animal Bone, cordage, tree pitch/gum
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
