Projectile Point
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- mineral, quartz
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0017 a-d
- Description
- Four arrowheads:a) A white quartz arrowhead with steep sloping sides and a defined shoulder on one side leading to a short shaft. b) A white quartz arrowhead with slight grey marbling. The arrowhead has a defined shoulder on one side, and the other seems to have broken off. The shoulders lead to …
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- Title
- Projectile Point
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- mineral, quartz
- Dimensions
- 5.5 (a); 4.5 (b); 4.2 (c); 4.0 (d) cm
- Description
- Four arrowheads:a) A white quartz arrowhead with steep sloping sides and a defined shoulder on one side leading to a short shaft. b) A white quartz arrowhead with slight grey marbling. The arrowhead has a defined shoulder on one side, and the other seems to have broken off. The shoulders lead to a short, wide shaft. c) A very wide, triangular-shaped, arrowhead of white quartz with definite shoulders leading to a rounded bump on the bottom which must have been a shaft at one time. d) A steep sided, triangular-shaped, arrowhead of bluish white quartz with the shaft broken off at a slight angle.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0017 a-d
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