Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of William Wallace Tooker (1848-1917, a scholar of Long Island Native cultures and collector); purchased by the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, New York) from William Wallace Tooker in 1901; acquired by MAI through an exchange with the Brooklyn Museum in 1962.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Multiple archaeological cultures (attributed), including Late Archaic and Woodland Traditions
- Previous owner
- William Wallace Tooker (WWT), Non-Indian, 1848-1917
- Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn Museum of Art)
- Date created
- 3000 BC–AD 1600 (Late Archaic to Late Woodland period)
- Object Name
- Axe head
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Flaked/chipped, ground
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
