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69-16-22

From: Alaska | Unalakleet

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 69-16-22
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Alaska | Unalakleet
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Archaeology Area Eroded out of test pit wall during winter
Locus IP House
Section American
Materials Obsidian
Description

Artifact is symmetrical in outline. Base may have been broken. Flake scars are driven off base from the edges. Edges of tang element approximately arcuate. Tang-tip junction is shallow arc formed by intersection of edges of two elements. Flake scars not parallel to one another, but are perpendicular to edges. Part of one edge of artifact broken.

Length 4.7 cm
Width 1.6 cm
Thickness 0.3 cm
Credit Line Alaska Unalaklett Expedition; Bruce Lutz, 1969

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