Blade
- Museum number:
- 1-1544
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010001544
- Alternate number:
- 128 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.17 and Acc.86
- Description:
- Mahogany obsidian. Bifacial; lanceolate shape, with squared off base.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Northwestern California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California
- Culture or time period:
- Yurok
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection date:
- 1901
- Materials:
- Obsidian
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Blades (stone tools)
- Function:
- 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
- Accession date:
- 1903 and November 20, 1901
- Context of use:
- Ceremonial (?)
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 12.3 centimeters and width 4.3 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
-