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Native Americans fashioned chert and flint into a variety of tools and points. The size and design of the point depended upon its intended use. Crafting these tools and weapons was labor intensive. Ideally, points were retrieved and used over and over again. This chert point has been lashed to a spear haft with sinew, or animal tendon. Sinew bound fresh has the useful trait of shrinking as it dries.

 

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Projectile point

creator   Native American
location   Unknown
process/materials   chert, wood
item type   Weapons/Armament
accession #   #1985.0398


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