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Object Number
08-4-10/72939
Display Title
Chipped knife
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Chipped stone scraper
Classification
- Scraper
- Raw Material
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Western Arctic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms
Aleutian Islands
Materials
Andesitic basalt
Dimensions
Overall: 7.9 x 0.9 cm (3 1/8 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
72939
Provenance
Collector
Grace A. Nicholson
(Unknown)
Donor
Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow
(06/01/1908)
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