Projectile knife points (2)

Classification: 
Date: 
1500-1700
Medium: 
Flint, quartz
Dimensions: 
largest: 3 3/8 x 1 1/4 in. ( 8.6 x 3.2 cm )
Description: 
Flint or quartz projectile points; one point is brown flint and the other is white quartz; both are triangular.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Theodore Rogers
Object Number: 
1890.4ab
Gallery Label: 
According to an attached label, these points were found on the farm of James Francis, three miles south of Jamaica in Queens, New York.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1700
eMuseum Object ID: 
7183
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Projectile point

Classification: 
Date: 
1500-1700
Medium: 
Flint
Dimensions: 
Overall: 3 1/8 x 1 3/8 in. ( 7.9 x 3.5 cm )
Description: 
Flint projectile point; triangular black blade with tang.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Reverend Robert Bolton, 1848
Object Number: 
1848.84
Gallery Label: 
This knife blade was found in Westchester County, New York.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1700
eMuseum Object ID: 
7182
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Indian drill

Classification: 
Date: 
1500-1700
Medium: 
Flint
Dimensions: 
Overall: 2 3/8 x 1/2 in. ( 6 x 1.3 cm )
Description: 
Flint drill; black flint; cylindrical base narrows to thin point.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Meredith Howland
Object Number: 
1906.15
Gallery Label: 
According to accession records, this drill was found in 1845 at Flushing in Queens, New York.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1700
eMuseum Object ID: 
7181
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Earthenware fragments (9) in envelope

Classification: 
Date: 
1500-1700
Medium: 
Earthenware
Dimensions: 
largest: 2 x 3/8 in. ( 5.1 x 1 cm )
Description: 
Earthenware fragments (Native American); thin; red on exterior and blackened on interior; impressed lines on exterior near lip.
Object Number: 
X.186a-i
Gallery Label: 
According to an attached label, these fragments were found prior to 1881 in a mound at Pelham Neck in the Bronx, New York.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1700
eMuseum Object ID: 
7179
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Net sinkers (5) in envelope

Classification: 
Date: 
1500-1700
Medium: 
Stone
Dimensions: 
largest: 3 in. ( 7.6 cm )
Description: 
Stone net sinkers; balls with grooved bands around center.
Object Number: 
X.200a-e
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1700
eMuseum Object ID: 
7178
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Wig curler

Collections: 
Classification: 
Date: 
1760-1775
Medium: 
Clay
Dimensions: 
Overall: 2 7/8 x 1/2 x 1/2 in. ( 7.3 x 1.3 x 1.3 cm )
Description: 
Clay wig curler; short, white cylindrical body which becomes bulbous at both ends.
Object Number: 
INV.5924.77
Gallery Label: 
This wig curler was excavated by the Field Exploration Committee at the British Revolutionary War camp on the Dyckman farm, located between Seaman and Payson Avenues, and 204th and Academy Streets in Washington Heights, Manhattan. It belonged to a British or Hessian officer, or possibly a woman.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1775
eMuseum Object ID: 
7105
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Grapeshot

Classification: 
Date: 
1760-1783
Medium: 
Iron
Dimensions: 
Overall: 1 5/8 in. ( 4.1 cm )
Description: 
Iron grapeshot.
Credit Line: 
Gift of A.M. Clarke
Object Number: 
1962.79
Gallery Label: 
This grapeshot was cut out of a window casing of the Colonial Kip house, on 35th Street east of Second Avenue in Manhattan. The shot was probably fired on September 14, 1776 by a British frigate during a cannonade that preceded a landing of British troops on the island the next day.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1783
eMuseum Object ID: 
6921
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Knee-breech buckles (3) excavated at a British Revolutionary War camp

Classification: 
Date: 
1760-1775
Medium: 
Iron
Dimensions: 
largest: 1 x 5/8 x 1/8 in. ( 2.5 x 1.6 x 0.3 cm )
Description: 
Iron knee-breech buckles excavated at the British military camp on the Dyckman farm in Washington Heights, Manhattan; rectangular frames with tongues.
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Washington Headquarters Association, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1947
Object Number: 
INV.5924.90-92
Gallery Label: 
These buckles were excavated by Reginald P. Bolton, William L. Calver, and others prior to the formation of the Field Exploration Committee in 1918, at the British camp on the Dyckman farm, between Seaman and Payson Avenues and 204th and Academy Streets in Washington Heights. They were stored as part of the Reginald Pelham Bolton Collection in the Morris-Jumel Mansion, at 160th Street and Edgecomb Avenue in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1775
eMuseum Object ID: 
6888
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Cannonball in envelope, Calver

Classification: 
Date: 
1760-1776
Medium: 
Iron
Dimensions: 
Overall: 3 in. ( 7.6 cm )
Description: 
Iron cannonball.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. Meinrad Broghammer
Object Number: 
1971.95
Gallery Label: 
This cannonball was found near Riflemens' Redoubt in Fort Washington Park, Manhattan. Built by the Continental Army in the summer of 1776, Fort Washington extended west along 183rd Street from Fort Washington Avenue to Pinehurst Avenue. The fort was captured by British and Hessian forces on November 16, 1776, and was occupied by them until 1783.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1776
eMuseum Object ID: 
6801
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Arrowheads (4)

Classification: 
Date: 
1500-1700
Medium: 
Stone, quartz
Dimensions: 
Overall: 2 1/4 x 1 in. ( 5.7 x 2.5 cm )
Description: 
Stone arrowheads.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. Frank L. Jackson, 1946
Object Number: 
1946.375a-d
Gallery Label: 
These arrowheads were found about three miles southwest of New Paltz in Ulster County, New York.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1700
eMuseum Object ID: 
6776
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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