Wooden artifact; unidentified species; tapering at one end to a blunted point; opposite end broken and burned; all bark stripped away and specimen abraded to yield a smooth surface. Possibly a digging stick or dart shaft fragment. Length: 474 mm; maximum diameter: 14.9 mm. (Richard F. Ambro).
Donor:
University of California Archaeological Survey
Collection place:
CA-Ama-3 (Bamert Cave), Amador County, California
Collector:
Adán Eduardo Treganza and Robert Fleming Heizer
Collection date:
April 1950
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
May 1, 1950
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Loans:
S1970-1971 #82: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Thomas Roy Hester (February 11, 1971–April 20, 1973)