Cumberland Type Projectile Point

Paleo-Indian
Southeast

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Paleo-Indian

Fluted point

Overall: 3 15/16 × 1 × 5/16 in. (10 × 2.5 × 0.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of M. Dickinson

13.38.1050

Geography

Place Found: United States, North America

Period

12000-8000 BCE

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Archaeology

Not on view

Course History

ANTH 11/NAS 11, Ancient Native Americans, Deb Nichols, Winter 2019

ANTH 11, NAS 11, Ancient Native Americans, Nathaniel Kitchel, Fall 2019

Exhibition History

Ancient Native American Pottery, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibitions; Anthropology 32, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 7-February 9, 1992.

Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition; Anthropology 32, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 13-March 4, 1990.

Provenance

Collected by M. Dickinson; catalogued by present collection, 1913.

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