Shell

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
1-172320
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010172320
Alternate number:
1 (burial number)
Accession number:
Acc.UCAS-303
Description:
Small, whole and cut abalone. Haliotis rufescens.
Donor:
University Appropriation and University of California Archaeological Survey
Collection place:
CA-Hum-182, Humboldt County, California
Collector:
Albert B. Elsasser, James Allan Bennyhoff, and James T. Davis
Collection date:
March 1954
Taxon:
Haliotis rufescens (red abalone)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Shell samples
Accession date:
April 5, 1954
Department:
Associated funerary objects
Comment:
Card stamped: "Discarded 1955". Subsequent documentary analysis indicates that the reference to site X-2 in the Ledger comments is in error; the correct reference is site X-1 (CA-Hum-182). Subsequent documentary analysis indicates this catalogue record is an associated funerary object associated specifically with human remains catalogued as 12-9655 through its association with Burial 1.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-172320, described as Small, whole and cut abalone. Haliotis rufescens.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-172320, described as Small, whole and cut abalone. Haliotis rufescens.

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