Bone tool

Museum number:
1-205951
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010205951
Accession number:
Acc.1116
Description:
Splintered elk humerus used as tool.
Donor:
James Allan Bennyhoff
Collection place:
CA-CCo-138, Oakley, Contra Costa County
Verbatim coll. place:
Pit x-1; 32"East 2"North; SWC 44" deep
Collector:
Anthropology 195, James Allan Bennyhoff, and Robert Fleming Heizer
Collection date:
Spring 1953
Taxon:
Cervus canadensis
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Bone tools
Accession date:
1953
Context of use:
Used as tool.
Department:
Associated funerary objects
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bone tool, accession number 1-205951, described as Splintered elk humerus used as tool.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bone tool, accession number 1-205951, described as Splintered elk humerus used as tool.

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