Blade

Museum number:
1-1327
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3571 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Obsidian, black; bifacial, lanceolate shape.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
F. E. Gist and Philip Mills Jones
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:
December 7, 1901
Context of use:
Ceremonial
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 5.7 centimeters and length 33.2 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4436. Published: BAE B-78, pl. 2. References: Illustrated in H.N. Rust's paper on The Obsidian Blades of California, American Anthropologist, Vol. 7, #4, 1905 Pl. XLI, No. 2.
Loans:
S1973-1974 #25: California State University, Chico (October 18, 1973–July 3, 1975), S2002-2003 #4: Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation (August 22, 2002–October 31, 2002), and S2004-2005 #2: Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation (August 27, 2004–October 31, 2004)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Blade, accession number 1-1327, described as Obsidian, black; bifacial, lanceolate shape.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blade, accession number 1-1327, described as Obsidian, black; bifacial, lanceolate shape.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blade, accession number 1-1327, described as Obsidian, black; bifacial, lanceolate shape.

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