Soil sample

Museum number:
1-64591
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010064591
Alternate number:
39-2 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.750
Description:
Soil sample from inside of skull.
Donor:
Ernest N. Johnson
Collection place:
CA-CCo-138, Oakley, Contra Costa County
Verbatim coll. place:
Pit 32, 40" d.
Collector:
Ernest N. Johnson
Collection date:
December 10, 1938
Materials:
Soil
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Soil samples
Accession date:
1939
Context of use:
With burial, inside of skull.
Department:
Associated funerary objects
Comment:
Card stamped: "Discarded 1955". Not discarded. Stored in in glass jar. Subsequent documentary analysis indicates this catalog record is a non-funerary object in spatial proximity to human remains cataloged as 12-6087 through its reference to Burial 39-2.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Soil sample, accession number 1-64591, described as Soil sample from inside of skull.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Soil sample, accession number 1-64591, described as Soil sample from inside of skull.

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