arrow-head
- Museum number
- Am,SLMisc.1254
- Description
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Arrow-head made of stone.
- Production date
- 1753 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 9 centimetres
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Width: 4.70 centimetres
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Depth: 1 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one.
Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Miscellanies 1254 "1254. The head of and Indian lance. L. 3 1/2. in"
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See JCH King `First Peoples, First Contacts' British Museum Press 1999
See Ethdoc 534 - Letter Joffre L Coe/JCH King 29.7.1987
'Point #885 and 1254 are similar to Morrow Mountain #1 and should be earlier than the above (#886), perhaps ca. 4-5000 BC ..'
- Location
- On display (G26/dc17)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1999 25 Jun-Present, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The First Americans / Hopewell Pipes from Mound City, Ohio"
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,SLMisc.1254
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am1753D10.1254 (old CDMS no.)
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 1254 (Miscellanies)