Foreshaft
- Museum number:
- 1-43767
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010043767
- Alternate number:
- 2144 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.704
- Description:
- Made of Sarcobatus. Thick, heavy.
- Donor:
- Beverly Blackmer and Francesca Blackmer Wigg
- Collection place:
- NV-Ch-35 (Humboldt Cave), Churchill County, Nevada
- Collector:
- Alex D. Krieger and Robert Fleming Heizer
- Collection date:
- June 1936
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Foreshafts (arrow components)
- Accession date:
- 1936
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 14 inches
- Comment:
- The "rat nest" deposits under the dome of the South Alcove seem older than other parts of the cave because of their damp, spongy condition, a very advanced stage of decomposition. Moisture, however, in this part of the cave, has probably caused more rapid decay than elsewhere. Rat dung and acids, acrid from moisture (see page) give the reddish color. "Deep S. Alcove" indicates position under the domed roof, south from the approximate center of the Alcove.
- Legacy documentation:
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