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Accession: 63
Catalog: 1134
Material: Stone
Notes: Date: This projectile point dates from 3,500 - 1,900 B.C.E.so it falls under the Late Archaic to Early Woodland cultural period.
800 - 500 BC
These stone tools, unearthed in Washington, D.C., point to the Native origins of the Nation's capital.
Accession: 8
Catalog: 679
Material: Stone
Notes: Date: This projectile point dates from 9,000 - 6,000 B.C.E.
so it falls under the Early to Middle Archaic cultural period.
Dalton made of goldstone. Need to clean up the serrations but I'm happy with the flutes, even if they don't show up well here.
Feelings of anxiety and ambivalence are common to many. Oftentimes these feelings reflect inner battles over choice. Inner struggles can feel “broken” or “fragmented” -- held together by very little. This feeling of being ready to break can be disorientating -- like there are two separate ideas in battle for the final outcome. I have used the term “Evil Twin” to highlight these struggles. The images I have created to suggest this dynamic are both serious and humorous. Each double portrait depicts the same person twice: one passive and one aggressive (hence the title “Evil Twins”). The locations and “weapons” are humorous and in many cases totally unthreatening . Yet each person has an obvious aggressive side.
While there is an easy humor to each of these works, there is a more serious concern to the group as a whole. The idea behind the good and bad conscience is well known . In my photos I have suggested a passive (good) half and an aggressive (bad) half for each person -- some more passive, some more aggressive. I have attempted to bring light the underlying ambiguities of our dual natures through the use of obvious montage--causing breaks and actual fragments in the photos. In addition, I have chosen to use humor and theatrics to soften the subject in order to make it more accessible to a broader range of people.
This basal-notched point was made from raw Georgetown flint. This rock was in 2 layers, light and dark, separated by a crystal-filled crack. I'm rather proud of not breaking the point on this seam, although it did stop flake propogation.
Between 1941 and 1944, British scientists were working on a top secret project to develop a projectile bomb that released darts tipped with poison. A recently de-classified document entitled ‘Research Into Use of Anthrax and Other Poisons for Biological Warfare’ revealed that sewing machine needles would be used in the weapon and tipped with a lethal poison, which would probably be either anthrax or ricin. According to a 1945 memo about the project, light darts could be used as the poison ensured slight penetration would be lethal and there was no need to hit vital organs. It also had the added advantage, according to the memo, of making it so that medical treatment would be unlikely to prevent the victim’s death. The bombs could carry 30,600 needles and if they hit, you were likely to be dead within half an hour. However the chances of hitting someone varied and while they would have had great effect against troops out in the open, they were virtually useless when there was any type of cover. This made them unlikely to cause mass damage frequently and therefore uneconomical and as a result, they never made it passed the planning stage.
Servalance can not be trusted.
Servalance is an 18 1/2in., one of a kind, handmade monster.
(he also makes a great projectile object)
Projectile point, Contracting stem; buff to gray chert with white inclusions; bifacially worked; rounded worked tip; 4.6 cm long
Projectile Points, Chert, Quartz and Rhyolite
Upper left; Pentagonal Type
Middle to Late Woodland Period
Gouge, Rhyolite
The Tsar Cannon is a large early modern period artillery piece (known as a bombarda in Russian) on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. It is a monument of Russian artillery casting art, cast in bronze in 1586 in Moscow, by the Russian master bronze caster Andrey Chokhov. Mostly of symbolic impact, it was never used in a war. However, the cannon bears traces of at least one firing. Per the Guinness Book of Records it is the largest bombard by caliber in the world, and it is a major tourist attraction in the ensemble of the Moscow Kremlin.
The Tsar Cannon is made of bronze; it weighs 39,312 kilograms (86,668 lb)[3] and has a length of 5.34 m. Its bronze-cast barrel has an internal diameter of 890 mm and an external diameter of 1,200 mm. The barrel has eight cast rectangular brackets for use in transporting the gun, which is mounted on a stylized cast-iron gun carriage with three wheels. The barrel is decorated with relief images, including an equestrian image of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich, with a crown and a scepter in his hand on horseback. Above the front right bracket the message "The grace of God, Tsar and Great Duke Fyodor Ivanovich, Autocrat of All Russia" was cast. There were two more labels cast at the top of the barrel, to the right is "The decree of the faithful and Christ-king and the Grand Duke Fyodor Ivanovich, Sovereign Autocrat of all Great Russia with his pious and god-blessed queen, Grand Princess Irina"; While to the one to the left is "Cast in the city of Moscow in the summer of year 7904 (c. 1585 in Gregorian calendar), in his third summer state, by Andrey Chokov." The cannon-style gun carriage, added in 1835, is purely decorative. This weapon was never intended to be transported on or fired from this gun carriage.
According to one version, the name of this cannon, "Tsar", is associated with the image of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich. However, it is more likely that this name owes to the massive size of this cannon. In old times the cannon is also sometimes called the "Russian Shotgun" (Дробовик Российский), because the gun was meant to shoot 800 kg stone grapeshot rather than true, solid cannonballs.
The spherical cast-iron projectiles located in front of the Tsar Cannon—each of which weighs approximately one ton—were produced in 1834 as a decoration, and are too large to have been used in the cannon. According to legend, the cannonballs were manufactured in St. Petersburg, and were intended to be a humorous addition and a symbol of the friendly rivalry between Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The carriages and the cannon itself were richly decorated in 1835 at the St. Petersburg plant of Berd, with designs by architect A. P. Bryullov and drawings engineer P. Ya. de Witte.
The Tsar Cannon was placed at several points around Moscow in its history. It is known to have been mounted on a special frame with a fixed inclination angle in the Red Square near the Place of Skulls in order to protect the eastern approaches to the Kremlin, indicating that it originally did have a practical application. However, by 1706, it was moved to the Kremlin Arsenal and mounted on a wooden gun carriage. It was not used during the French invasion of Russia, although Napoleon Bonaparte considered removing it to France as a war trophy. The wooden gun carriage burnt in the fire that consumed Moscow in 1812, and was replaced in 1835 by the present metal carriage, which disabled the firing function of the cannon.
In 1860, the Tsar Cannon was moved to its current location on Ivanovskaya Square near the Tsar Bell, which is similarly massive and is the largest bell in the world (but which has never been rung).
Voltaire joked that the Kremlin's two greatest items were a bell which was never rung and a cannon that was never fired. For a long time, there was a common theory that the Tsar Cannon was created only to impress foreigners of Russia's military powers. Thus, according to writer Albert Valentinov:
"...Andrey Chokov knew from the very first moment that this would not be a whopper cannon at all. Even if we assume that the barrel would fire grapeshot, a massive amount of propellant would be needed to push the two-ton shot, making it impossible for the cannon to be transported from one position to another. Therefore Chokhov did not mean to cast it as a functional cannon at all. His cannon is always only a symbol of Russian power and of the capabilities of the Russian industry. If we render a Russian master able to create such a whopper cannon, the smaller ones would have much less use. Therefore, the Tsar Cannon was put on display in the Kremlin for foreign diplomats."
The cannon was last restored in 1980 in the town of Serpukhov. It was thoroughly studied by specialists in the Artillery Academy at that time and gunpowder residue was found, indicating that the cannon had been fired at least once, hinged and dug into the ground.
These projectile points make up a large collection that is in the Range Riders Museum in Miles City, Montana. The collection was assembled by two brothers named Moore, who collected throughout Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota during the early 1900s. As is typical with many artifact collections like this one, there is no provenience (a description of source or origin) or any other information regarding the items. They were just glued on a board to make an attractive display. Probably when the owners were still living, they could tell exactly where each piece was found.