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Object Number
26-7-10/95761
Display Title
Button made from fossil shell
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Stone, ground stone, button made from fossil shell, 1 perforation
Classification
- Ground Stone
Department
Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
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United States
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New Mexico
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Grant County
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<City>
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Nan Ranch Ruin
Intrasite
General digging
Additional Geographic Terms
Swarts Ruin, 3 miles below; Mimbres River, east side of
Materials
Stone
Dimensions
Overall: 2.4 x 2.5 x 1.2 cm (15/16 x 1 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
95761
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Pendant
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Peru
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| 37-32-50/2529 | Charm made from a tusk, woven fiber cap, cowrie shells + button - said to be pow |
Raw Material
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Image Not Available
for Fossil shell
| 19-21-30/C8779 | Fossil shell |
Ground Stone
|
Esperanza
| |
| 26-7-10/95683 | 2 snail shells; 1 shell bead; 1 fossil shell; piece of land tarapin |
Shell
|
Swarts Ranch
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|
Image Not Available
for Button made of shell
| 967-40-10/45650 | Button made of shell |
Shea Site
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| 46-12-60/8729 | Limestone fossil shell "pendant" |
Pendant
Raw Material |
Tall-I-Bakun
| |
| 2006.21.2 | Disk of shell?; bone?; stone?; fossil? |
Mineral
|
Choiseul Island
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| 38-65-60/9456 | Large flake made of fossil palm |
Chipping debris
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Burma
| |
| 46-73-10/91028 | Stone, fossil of bivalve shell |
Raw Material
|
United States
| |
|
Image Not Available
for Fossils
| 64-51-10/43917 | Fossils |
Ground Stone
|
Section 28
| |
| 19-21-30/C8760 | Fossil shell, showing use |
Raw Material
Pestle |
Esperanza
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| 63-4-10/40019 | Ground stone, pecked and ground stone fragments; ground stone, flat edged tool fragment, with fossil of shell |
Edged Tools
Modified Lithic |
Turpin Homestead Site; Ohio State Site # 33HA28 (105; 19)
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