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Object Number 28-3-10/97180
Display Title Dart foreshafts
Descriptions
Inventory Description Organic, wood shafts, some notched, some pointed, incised deco, perforated
Classification
  • Worked Wood
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico / Grant County
Additional Geographic Terms Steamboat Canyon; Bear Creek, tributary to; Gila River Drainage
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 17.5 x 1 x 1 cm (6 7/8 x 3/8 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 10
Label on object 97180
Provenance
Collector Cornelius Burton (Burt) Cosgrove Sr.
Collector Harriet S. Cosgrove
Expedition Peabody Museum Expedition

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Dart foreshafts
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Raw Material
Worked Wood
Cave
Dart foreshafts with stone points
28-3-10/97179 Dart foreshafts with stone points
Projectile Point
Grant County
Incised dart foreshafts, Steamboat Cave and Ceremonial Cave
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Catron County
Decorated wood foreshafts
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Worked Wood
Cave
Stone pointed feather tipped arrows with round foreshafts (8)
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Arrow
Mexico
Barbed wood foreshafts
28-3-10/97182 Barbed wood foreshafts
Worked Wood
Grant County
Fragments of arrows: foreshafts, shafts, and butts
14-5-10/A1205 Fragments of arrows: foreshafts, shafts, and butts
Reed
Cliff House 2
Arrow foreshafts
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Worked Wood
Cliff House 7
Broken foreshafts
14-5-10/A1357 Broken foreshafts
Worked Wood
Cliff House 5
Arrow foreshafts
14-5-10/A1589 Arrow foreshafts
Worked Wood
Cliff House 8
Foreshafts of arrows
14-5-10/A1156 Foreshafts of arrows
Worked Wood
Cliff House 1
Wooden object. Catalog: “foreshaft for dart”.
28-3-10/96744 Wooden object. Catalog: “foreshaft for dart”.
Worked Wood
Ceremonial Cave