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Object Number 08-4-10/73485
Display Title Serpentine medicine charm
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ornament, ground greenstone, both ends worked to blunt points
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Karuk
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California
Additional Geographic Terms Klamath River; Camp Creek
Materials Greenstone
Dimensions Overall: 8 x 0.7 x 0.7 cm (3 1/8 x 1/4 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 08-4-10/73485
Provenance
Collector Mr. Carroll S. Hartman (1908)
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (1908)
Donor Donated by Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow

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