Knife

22553

From: New Mexico

Curatorial Section: American

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Native Name Ti-Noo-Shi
Object Number 22553
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Pueblo | Zuni
Provenience New Mexico
Culture Area Southwest Culture Area
Section American
Materials Flint
Description

Two points with excurvate edges used as knives. Both are side notched with expanded stems on one side with the opposite side irregularly chipped. One has a straight base and the other has a concave base. Both are worked bifacially and their cutting edges are retouched. Both blades are made from red stones.

Credit Line Southwest Expedition; R. Stewart Culin; subscription of Robert C. H. Brock, 1902

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