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Stone hammer
Object Number 10-21-10/76485
Display Title Stone hammer
Descriptions
Inventory Description Groundstone hammerstone or pestle
Classification
  • Pestle
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Wiyot
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California
Materials Stone
Dimensions Overall: 17 x 7.8 x 8.4 cm (6 11/16 x 3 1/16 x 3 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 76485
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (01/01/1910)
Collector Mr. Carroll S. Hartman (01/01/1910)
Previous owner Previously owned by Isaac Abner Beers (ca. 1880)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (01/01/1910)

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