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Flint used for drill making
Flint used for drill making
Object Number 08-4-10/72962
Display Title Flint used for drill making
Descriptions
Inventory Description Tool, unclassified, amorphous chert fragment
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Pomo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California / Mendocino County / Mendocino County?
North America / United States / California / Lake County / Lake County?
Additional Geographic Terms Cahto
Materials Chert
Dimensions Overall: 6.8 x 4.4 x 2.9 cm (2 11/16 x 1 3/4 x 1 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 72962
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (06/01/1908)

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