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Name Details:
Named By: Del Greer and Jim Hogue
Named For: Local collectors name for point
 Date Identified: 1988
 Type Site:  


Comment:  This point was first discuss by Leslie Spier and Edward Spier in 1930 describing the point as a "War Arrow" in the Wishram Ethnography Report.  Type was also described in North American Bows by Otis Mason in 1908.
 Vendetta
(Collector Type)
 Cluster:







Commonly Utilized Material:


Date:                   
Cultural Period:   
1,500 -200 B.P.
Developmental to Classic
Roman Warm to Little Ice Age

Glacial Period:
Culture:
     
      


Outline is Representative of Common Size and Shape:



Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:

This is a small to medium triangular stemmed point with a flattened to elliptical cross section.  The blade is primarily straight with a notch entering half-way down the blade forming the appearance of a point attached to another point.  The shoulders of the top blade is horizontal to having an upward angle.  The shoulders on the second blade ranges from horizontal to barbed.  The stem (not all examples have a stem) is primarily straight, but ranges from slightly contracting to slightly expanding with a base that varies from slightly convex to slightly concave.  This point has a random flaking pattern.    

Size Measurements:  Total Length - 22 to 43 mm,  Stem Length - 3 to 9 mm,  Blade Width - 12 to 17 mm,  Stem Width - 3 to 6 mm

Distribution:
Distribution Comments:

This point is primarily associated with the coastal regions of the Portland Basin of Oregon and Washington and may extend up the Columbia River into the Dalles region.

Similar Points:
Sauvies Island
Related / Associated Points: 
Additional Comments:

These points were thought to be war type points with the tip of the point being covered in poison (rattlesnake venom).  The point then would break off once it struck the target (Heath, 2009).




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Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity:   Collector Type

Greer is an avocational archeologist from the Columbia River area.  Hogue is an avocational archeologist who is a consultant for the Overstreet Price Guide.  He has studied the the archaeology of the Columbia Plateau.  This type was named in a collector publication and has many collector type sources.  There are no professional references to this type




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Age Details:
This type is part of the Late Riverine to Historic Phase.
Pictures Provided By:
Windy City Artifacts
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References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):

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Vendetta Projectile Point, Vendetta Arrowhead