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THBLot of 3 Rare Old Copper Culture Copper Spear Heads
Lot 97a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Apr 4, 2019
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2019-04-04 10:00:00
2019-04-04 10:00:00
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Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian Icons, Fine art, much more! All categories, all price ranges... all legally acquired and guaranteed to be as described or your money back Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Native American, Western Great Lakes Region, Wisconsin and Southern Canada, Old Copper Complex Culture, Late Archaic Period, ca. 3000 BCE. A fantastic selection of 3 rare copper spear heads from one of the earliest Native American tribes in North America. The smallest head has a petaloid form, rounded lateral fins, and a folded attachment shaft with a small piercing. The next head has a triangular blade with pointed lateral fins, a faint central ridge on top, and a socketing shaft shaped from folded lateral peripheries. The largest head has a solid tapering tang, an ovoid blade with a shallow midrib on both sides, and a pointed tip. Given the make-shift tools and primitive smelting techniques, scholars posit that copper blades like these examples were shaped through the cold-forming method where raw material is gradually shaped into certain forms at temperatures - usually ambient - below the threshold at which recrystallization (molecular restructuring) occurs. Size: 1.1" W x 6.95" H (2.8 cm x 17.7 cm); 7.875" H (20 cm) on included custom stand.
For further information on the Old Copper Complex Culture as well as stylistically-similar examples , please see the Manitoba Archaeological Society, University of Manitoba: https://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/manarchnet/chronology/archaic/copper.html
Provenance: private Colorado, USA collection; ex-private Peterson collection, Michigan, USA
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
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#145017All items have slight bending to overall form, minor abrasions to attachment areas, minor nicks to blade edges, and light encrustations, otherwise intact and excellent. Light earthen deposits as well as stunning russet, green, and blue-green patina throughout. Old inventory label on verso of one item.Condition
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