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1. Blade

Museum number:
1-1544
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Object class:
Blades (stone tools)
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Dimensions:
length 12.3 centimeters and width 4.3 centimeters
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Collection date:
1901

2. Blade

Museum number:
2-6651
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:
Blades (stone tools)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Dimensions:
length 12.7 centimeters
Collector:
Rudolph Neumann
Collection place:
Pastolik, Wade Hampton Borough, Alaska

3. Blade

Museum number:
11-616
Culture or time period:
Micronesian
Object class:
Blades (stone tools)
Function:
1.9 Multiple Utility
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Caroline Islands

4. Blade

Museum number:
10-2551c
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Collection place:
Philippines

5. Blade

Museum number:
5-881
Culture or time period:
Kuanyama Ambo
Function:
1.3 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Collector:
Edwin M. Loeb, Ella-Marie Loeb, and University of California African Expedition
Collection place:
Namibia
Collection date:
Spring 1948

6. Blade

Museum number:
1-157482
Culture or time period:
Coast Miwok
Object class:
Blades (stone tools)
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Dimensions:
length 11.5 centimeters
Collector:
David Wayne Peri
Collection place:
Bodega Bay, Sonoma County, California
Collection date:
ca. 1950

7. Blade

Museum number:
5-1593b
Culture or time period:
Suku
Function:
1.0 Use not specified (Utensils, Implements, and Conveyances)
Collection place:
Democratic Republic of the Congo

8. Blade

Museum number:
11-39597
Object class:
Blades (stone tools)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Collection place:
Polynesia

9. Blade

Museum number:
11-40492
Culture or time period:
Massim
Object class:
Ginesosu blades
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Collector:
Bronislaw Malinowski and Bruce D. Lawes
Collection place:
Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua Region
Collection date:
1914-1920

10. Blade

Museum number:
10-943a
Object class:
Bolos (bladed weapons)
Function:
1.9 Multiple Utility
Collection place:
Philippines