Flaker

Museum number:

1-10553

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Alternate number:

b 40 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.247

Description:

Instrument used in flaking flint

Donor:

Pliny Earle Goddard

Collection place:

Maple Creek, Mad River, Humboldt County

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Humboldt; Maple Creek

Culture or time period:

Whilkut

Collector:

Pliny Earle Goddard, Van Duzen Pete, and Wife of Pete

Collection date:

1906

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Flakers

Function:

1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Instrument used in flaking flint.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Remarks: "Called butteuwiltok.

Loans:

S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966) and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)

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