Black stone arrow-head. [FB 24/06/2015]

Collection type: Object
Description: Black stone arrow-head. [FB 24/06/2015]
Long description: Stone arrow-head with tang, dark grey in colour. The sides of the arrow head are serated. [MJD (Verve) 22/5/2017]
Geographical reference: Northern America
Northern America; Circumpolar North
Cultural groups: Inuit (Greenland); Inuit
Person: Field collector John Wickham Flower; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date
Date collected: By 1892
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1892
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Thick: max 9 mm, Length: max 80 mm, Width: max 22 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1892.67.896
Research and responses: Note that only a tiny fraction of JW Flower items are also marked as being related to the Pitt Rivers founding collection. Whilst it is possible that they did originally form part of the founding collection, were brought from London in 1884 and then placed with the geological (or other) collections at Oxford University Museum of Natural History before eventually being transferred to the Pitt Rivers Museum it seems odd that they were not all recorded as being related to the founding collection. Most are attributed to being donated by Flowers to OUMNH and being transferred from there [AP 23/07/2009]

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