Metate

Museum number:
1-45407
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.704
Description:
Crude, of black basalt. Fire blackened.
Donor:
Beverly Blackmer and Francesca Blackmer Wigg
Collection place:
NV-Ch-35 (Humboldt Cave), Churchill County, Nevada
Collector:
Alex D. Krieger and Robert Fleming Heizer
Collection date:
June 1936
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Ground stone and Metates
Accession date:
1936
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 23 centimeters and length 39 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Metate, accession number 1-45407, described as Crude, of black basalt. Fire blackened.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Metate, accession number 1-45407, described as Crude, of black basalt. Fire blackened.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Metate, accession number 1-45407, described as Crude, of black basalt. Fire blackened.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Metate, accession number 1-45407, described as Crude, of black basalt. Fire blackened.

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