arrow-head;
point
- Museum number
- Am1997,Q.1574
- Description
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Stemmed arrowhead, point, made of black chert
- Dimensions
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Length: 4.60 centimetres
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Width: 2.80 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1825 (?)
- Acquisition notes
- Found apparently unregistered in South American collections in 1997. Formally registered in June 2013.
Object was found in a small box with two additional arrow-heads, one small ball of crumbly red stone and five obsidian blades. All were ostensibly unregistered, but also in box was a paper label which read "Obsidian - Mexico from which chips have been knocked off - from the small pyramid Chollula and on the great pyramid of the sun [Teotihuacan] mixed with fragments of red earthenware and human bones - Presented to Dr. Buckland by Mr. Bullock." Three large obsidian cores (Am1997,Q.1581-1583) are also possibly associated with this body of material.
This is clearly a reference to the Bullock/Buckland Mexican collection acquired in 1825, which according to the records included 16 obsidian blades (Am1825,1210.26-41, all missing) and a mixed collection from Cholula or Teotihuacan containing "terracotta, stone, volcanic matter [and] bone" (Am1825,1210.52, missing) which probably correlates with the card. No arrow-heads are recorded in the Bullock/Buckland collections. Further research is needed to match these objects with their original numbers, and temporary numbers have been assigned in the meantime.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1997,Q.1574
