Needle

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
1-54520
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Alternate number:
15 (burial number) and bur. 15 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.763
Description:
Bone needle.
Donor:
Richard K. Beardsley, Robert Fleming Heizer, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
CA-Mrn-266, Tomales Point, Point Reyes
Verbatim coll. place:
Burial #15
Culture or time period:
Early/Middle Horizon: Patterson facies (ca. 500–200 BC)
Collector:
Richard K. Beardsley and Robert Fleming Heizer
Collection date:
July 22, 1940
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Needles (piercing tools)
Accession date:
1940
Context of use:
Burial.
Department:
Associated funerary objects
Dimensions:
length 174 millimeters
Comment:
Published: " "Geologic" Guidebook of S.F. Bay Co's", Heizer, Bull. 154, Dec. 1951, fig. 15-K". Middle culture period Alameda district, coastal and bay. Name: Edra Moore Central California Archaeology Type Phase: Patterson facies
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Needle, accession number 1-54520, described as Bone needle.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle, accession number 1-54520, described as Bone needle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle, accession number 1-54520, described as Bone needle.

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