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Object Number
99-30-10/56339
Display Title
Spearpoints or knives
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Chipped stone bifaces, one triangular, one stemmed
Classification
- Triangular biface
Department
Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
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United States
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Massachusetts
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Middlesex County
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Arlington
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John Sajamore's Indian village
Additional Geographic Terms
Alewife Brook and Mystic River, junction of; Goat Acre
Materials
Stone
Dimensions
Overall (Measurement of the largest): 10.8 × 5.5 × 1.3 cm (4 1/4 × 2 3/16 × 1/2 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
56339; Goatacre / 3/31.1890.; Arlington Ms. Junction / of Alewife Brook + / Mystic River. Locality / Called Goat. Acre. / ###.13.84.
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