Bifacial tool/projectile point (Image withheld, pending review)
date: label: Date created
content: 5000 BC–AD 1100 (Middle to Late Archaic period)
name: label: Culture/People
content: possibly Western Archaic (attributed)
label: Expedition
content: Whitmore Exploring Expedition (1897)
label: Expedition leader
content: Richard Wetherill, Non-Indian, 1858-1910
label: Previous owner
content: Frederick E. Hyde, Jr. (Frederick Erastus Hyde Jr.), Non-Indian, 1874-1944
label: Previous owner
content: B. Talbot B. Hyde (Benjamin Talbot Babbitt Hyde/B. T. Babbitt Hyde/B.T.B. Hyde), Non-Indian, 1872-1933
label: Seller
content: B. Talbot B. Hyde (Benjamin Talbot Babbitt Hyde/B. T. Babbitt Hyde/B.T.B. Hyde), Non-Indian, 1872-1933
label: Presenter/funding source
content: Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collected or excavated between January and March 1897 during the Whitmore Exploring Expedition led by Richard Wetherill (1858-1910) and sponsored by Charles E. Whitmore Jr. (1870-ca. 1940) and George Bowles; sold in 1897 to B. Talbot B. Hyde (1872-1933) and his brother Frederick E. Hyde, Jr. (1874-1944); donated to the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) by the Hyde brothers; withdrawn from the AMNH collection by B. Talbot B. Hyde in August 1909 and lent to the University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) in conjunction with the George Heye collection there; purchased by George Heye from B. Talbot B. Hyde in February 1916 using funds donated by Thea (Mrs. George) Heye.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Grand Gulch; San Juan County; Utah; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: Western Archaic
label: See related items
content: Tools and Equipment (General)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 5/5224
label: Barcode
content: 055224.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tools and Equipment (General)
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Bifacial tool/projectile point (Image withheld, pending review)
label: Media/Materials
content: Stone
label: Techniques
content: Flaked/chipped, flaked/chipped