POINT, PROJECTILE

Description: .1) POINT, PROJECTILE. 3.6CM X 1.2CM X0.4CM TRIANGULAR BLACK OBSIDIAN POINT. BOTTOM END IS BROKEN OFF. ONE SIDE IS FLAT, OTHER IS ROUNDED. POSSIBLY A BITTERROOT STYLE POINT FROM 5000 TO 3000 B.C. .2) POINT, PROJECTILE. 4.0CM X 1.6CM X 0.5CM TRIANGULAR SANDSTONE POINT. BOTTOM END IS BROKEN OFF. LENGTH OF POINT IS CONCAVE IN SHAPE. POSSIBLY A BITTERROOT STYLE POINT FROM 5000 TO 3000 B.C. .3) POINT, PROJECTILE. 5.0CM X 1.6CM X0.8CM OVAL BLACK OBSIDIAN POINT. LENGTH OF POINT IS ROUGHLY CONCAVE IN SHAPE. POSSIBLY A MCKEAN STYLE POINT FROM 2300 TO 1900 B.C. .4) POINT, PROJECTILE, 5.4CM X 1.8CM X 0.7CM ELLIPTICAL BLACK STONE POINT. BOTTOM SIDE IS FLAT, WHILE TOP SIDE IS TRIANGULAR. POINT TAPERED AT BOTH ENDS WITH BOTTOM END CUT FLAT. POSSIBLY A CLOVIS OR AGATE BASIN STYLE POINT FROM 9500 TO 8000 B.C.

History: PROJECTILE POINTS WERE COLLECTED BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA. NAKAYAMA AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO COALDALE IN 1945 AFTER BEING RELOCATED FROM VANCOUVER IN 1942 TO SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. AT COALDALE HE FOUNDED THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION WHERE HE WAS RECTOR FROM 1945 TO 1970. IDENTIFICATION OF PROJECTILE POINTS WAS DONE USING ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ALBERTA PUBLICATION 'RECORD IN STONE: FAMILIAR PROJECTILE POINTS FROM ALBERTA' BY J.T. HUMPHREYS AND M.C. WILSON (1987). FROM AUGUST 29 TO 31, 2011 COLLECTIONS TECHNICIAN KEVIN MACLEAN INTERVIEWED THE DONOR, JOY KOGAWA, ABOUT HER MEMORIES ASSOCIATED WITH SPECIFIC OBJECTS THAT SHE DONATED IN 1997. OF THIS ARTIFACT, KOGAWA SAID: “THESE ARE ARROWHEADS, AND I THINK THAT THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO DAD, BY WHOM I DO NOT KNOW… HE WAS ALWAYS INTERESTED IN HISTORICAL THINGS OF ANY KIND [AND] HE KEPT THINGS THAT WERE GIVEN TO HIM, HE WOULD HAVE NEVER THROWN THEM OUT…” SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.