Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected between 1905 and 1940 by Hervey Knight Ilsley (1883-1962, a carpenter in Georgetown, Massachusetts); inherited by his son William H. Ilsley (1912-1994); donated to MAI by William H. Ilsley in 1985.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Late Archaic or Early Woodland Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Collector
- Hervey Knight Ilsley, Non-Indian, 1883-1962
- Previous owner
- Hervey Knight Ilsley, Non-Indian, 1883-1962
- William H. Ilsley, Non-Indian, 1912-1994
- Donor
- William H. Ilsley, Non-Indian, 1912-1994
- Date created
- 3000–200 BC (Late Archaic to Early Woodland period)
- Object Name
- Bifacial tool/projectile point
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Flaked/chipped
- Dimensions
- 3.6 x 2 cm
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
