Beads

Museum number:

L-20020

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

57 (1938) (burial number)

Accession number:

Acc.806

Description:

String of whole olivella beads.

Donor:

Jeremiah B. Lillard and Sacramento County Board of Education

Collection place:

CA-Sac-60 (Hicks 1), Sacramento County, California

Culture or time period:

Middle Horizon: Morse facies (ca. 200 BC–700 AD)

Collector:

Jeremiah B. Lillard

Collection date:

1938

Object type:

archaeology

Object class:

Beads (pierced objects)

Accession date:

February 16, 1942

Context of use:

Burial.

Department:

Associated funerary objects

Comment:

Many AI olivella beads and at least one DI. Middle culture period Cosumnes district, interior valley. "214 sp." written in pencil at end of description in ledger. Name: Edra Moore Central California Archaeology Type Phase: Morse facies Type: 1a. "Found" written in next to cat. number in ledger, refers to handwritten note in the front of the first volume of the Lillard ledger. The note reads: "Started checking specimens present in collection at U.C.M.A. on 3/8/50. Those present are marked "found" in back of catalogue number. W. Pendry".

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