Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Otto John (the superintendent of the apartment building where George and Thea Heye lived); donated to MAI by Otto John in 1932.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Multiple archaeological cultures (attributed), including Archaic, Woodland, and Hopewell Traditions
- Previous owner
- Otto John, Non-Indian, b. ca. 1885
- Donor
- Otto John, Non-Indian, b. ca. 1885
- Date created
- 6000 BC-AD 1000 (Middle Archaic to Late Woodland period)
- Object Name
- Bifacial tool/projectile point
- Media/Materials
- Chert, chalcedony, jasper
- Techniques
- Flaked/chipped
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
