Ornament

Museum number:

L-17535

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Accession number:

Acc.806

Description:

Haliotis ornament.

Donor:

Jeremiah B. Lillard and Sacramento County Board of Education

Collection place:

CA-Sac-126 (Booth Mound), Sacramento County, California

Culture or time period:

Middle/Late Horizon Transition: Calhoun facies (700–900 AD)

Collector:

Jeremiah B. Lillard

Collection date:

unknown

Object type:

archaeology

Object class:

Ornaments (object genre)

Accession date:

February 16, 1942

Context of use:

Burial.

Department:

Unassociated funerary objects

Comment:

Late culture period Cosumnes district, interior valley and delta region, Augustin pattern. Name: Edra Moore Central California Archaeology Type Phase: Transitional Calhoun facies. "On display x" refers to handwritten note in the front of the first volume of the Lillard ledger. The note reads: "Specimens marked "On display x" are in Anthro Bldg. Specimens marked "On display" are in display room of museum. W.P." "Found" written in next to cat. number in ledger, refers to handwritten note in the front of the first volume of the Lillard ledger. The note reads: "Started checking specimens present in collection at U.C.M.A. on 3/8/50. Those present are marked "found" in back of catalogue number. W. Pendry".

Loans:

S1974-1975 #90: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Christopher R. Corson (April 15, 1975–August 18, 1975)

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