Metal Point
Artifact
1996.x.691
Projectile point made of metal, which is now quite rusted. The point is triangular with a stemmed and slightly angled base.
Metal points were utilized by Indigenous groups during the Contact Period, around 350 to 50 years before present (BP). They were manufactured in Europe and brought by traders, or salvaged from repurposed metal by Indigenous groups themselves. This one was likely made of reproposed as the angled base suggests it was constructed by hand rather than through mass production. These points were used well into the late nineteenth century before the bow and arrow was replaced with firearms.
Metal
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