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69-16-215

From: Alaska | Unalakleet

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 69-16-215
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Alaska | Unalakleet
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Archaeology Area Test pit, floor contact
Locus House 120
Section American
Materials Chert (uncertain)
Description

Blue-grey fine-grained chert (?) with concoidal fracture. Pentagonal. Tang composed of two straight edges (?). Slight bulge at tang-tip junction on both edges - equidistant from tip on both edges. Flake scars non-parallel. Portions of both surfaces of tang ground. Tang broken perpendicular to longitudinal axis.

Length 2.7 cm
Width 1.5 cm
Credit Line Alaska Unalaklett Expedition; Bruce Lutz, 1969

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