Object Details
- Collection History
- Excavated by anthropologist Junius Bird (1907-1982) in 1933 during the Norcross-Bartlett Expedition, led by Captain Robert A. Bartlett (1875-1946) and sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History, the American Geographical Society, and the US Department of the Navy; Junius Bird’s participation in the expedition was sponsored by MAI trustee Frederick Kingsbury Curtis (1863-1936).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Thule Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Excavator
- Junius Bird (Junius Bouton Bird), Non-Indian, 1907-1982
- Expedition
- Norcross-Bartlett Expedition (1933)
- Expedition leader
- Captain Robert A. Bartlett (Robert Abram Bartlett), Non-Indian, 1875-1946
- Expedition sponsor
- Frederick Kingsbury Curtis (F.K. Curtis), Non-Indian, 1863-1936
- Date created
- probably AD 1300–1600
- Object Name
- Spear foreshaft
- Media/Materials
- Animal Bone
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
