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Pieces of horse bones
Object Number 974-36-10/52384
Display Title Pieces of horse bones
Descriptions
Object Description Pieces of horse bones
Inventory Description Bones of large mamal, including long bones, scapula, and vertibrae; scapula has an area of pink pigment, one of the long bones has drill mark in one end
Classification
  • Faunal Remain
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • American
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Middlesex County / Cambridge / Harvard Yard
Intrasite Hunt-Canaday Hall construction site
Additional Geographic Terms Harvard University
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall (Measurement of scapula): 40 × 21.5 × 7.1 cm (15 3/4 × 8 7/16 × 2 13/16 in.)
Quantity 7
Label on object 974-36-10/52384
Provenance
Provenance Unknown (1974)

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974-36-10/52384.1 Pieces of horse bones
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