Side Blade Fragment

56-28-2209

From: Alaska | Norton Sound | Cape Denbigh | Iyatayet

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 56-28-2209
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Denbigh Flint Complex
Provenience Alaska | Norton Sound | Cape Denbigh | Iyatayet
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Locus IYPE-8
Section American
Materials Chert (uncertain) | Chalcedony (uncertain)
Description

Bifacially retouched by removing a series of parallel flakes at a diagonal to both surfaces. End and portion of blade midsection, possibly a long triangular type side blade.

Length 1.6 cm
Width 0.7 cm
Thickness 0.2 cm
Credit Line Gift of J. Louis Giddings, 1956

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