End Blade Fragment (uncertain)

68-22-281

From: Alaska | Unalakleet

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 68-22-281
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Alaska | Unalakleet
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Locus IP House | Test excavation
Section American
Materials Obsidian
Description

Obsidian. Might be a side blade, but flaking resembles that on end blade (no differential flaking of edges). Base oblique to longitudinal axis. Flakes driven off base parallel to longitudinal axis. Flake scars large and not parallel to each other. Broken along one edge and broken obliquely to longitudinal axis - tang element remains

Length 2.2 cm
Width 1.7 cm
Thickness 0.3 cm
Credit Line Alaska Unalaklett Expedition, Bruce Lutz, 1968

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