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Object Number 69-33-10/40243
Display Title Bone point
Descriptions
Inventory Description Organic, bone point, barbed on one side, flat other side
Classification
  • Point
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Late Archaic Period?
  • Woodland Period?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Essex County / <City> / Shell heap
Additional Geographic Terms Plum Island
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 5.4 x 0.9 x 0.4 cm (2 1/8 x 3/8 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 40243
Provenance
Collector Louis Cabot (1869)
Donor Louis Cabot (1869)

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