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58-18-1

From: Guatemala | Kaminaljuyu

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 58-18-1
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Maya
Provenience Guatemala | Kaminaljuyu
Culture Area Central American
Locus Mound D-IV-2
Section American
Materials Obsidian
Description

Cloudy streaked obsidian. Core-struck flake; triangular in cross-section with bilaterally chipped tang. Use-scarred blade edges. One of a cache of 9 or 10 similar blades in the summit platform of Mound D-IV-2. Another is at the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Two others seen of this type for sale in an antiquity shop in Guatemala City by William Coe in 1957.

Length 25.6 cm
Width 6.9 cm
Thickness 2.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of Alfred V. Kidder, 1958

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