Soil sample

Museum number:
1-64597
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010064597
Alternate number:
59-1 (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 59, 24" d.
Collector:
Ernest N. Johnson
Collection date:
June 3, 1939
Materials:
Soil
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Soil samples
Accession date:
1939
Context of use:
With burial, from inside of skull.
Department:
Associated funerary objects
Comment:
Card stamped: "Discarded 1955". Not discarded. Subsequent documentary analysis indicates this catalog record is a non-funerary object in spatial proximity to human remains cataloged as 12-6125 through its reference to Burial 59-1.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Soil sample, accession number 1-64597, described as Soil sample from inside of skull.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Soil sample, accession number 1-64597, described as Soil sample from inside of skull.

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