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Object Number
12-10-70/D856
Display Title
Obsidian knives or spear points
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Knife, chipped obsidian, eccentric blade, squared stem
Classification
- Knife
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1911
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Chile
/
Rapa Nui
Materials
Obsidian
Dimensions
Overall: 9.9 x 6.9 x 1.7 cm (3 7/8 x 2 11/16 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
D-856
Provenance
Donor
Prof. Henry W. Haynes
(1912?)
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| 00-8-70/55424.1 | Obsidian tools |
Knife
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Rapa Nui
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for Obsidian knives or spear points
| 97-9-20/49822 | Obsidian knives or spear points |
Mexico
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Blade
|
Teuchitlan
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Image Not Available
for Obsidian knives
| 96-37-20/C1326.1 | Obsidian knives |
Prismatic blade
|
Teuchitlan
| |
| 11-6-20/C5701 | Obsidian knives |
Prismatic blade
|
Holmul
| |
| 15-73-20/C7377 | Obsidian knives |
Prismatic blade
|
Belize
| |
|
Image Not Available
for Broken obsidian knives
| 91-8-20/C2055 | Broken obsidian knives |
Prismatic blade
|
Cave of Loltun
| |
|
Image Not Available
for Obsidian knives
| 91-8-20/C1998 | Obsidian knives |
Prismatic blade
|
Cave of Loltun
| |
| 04-28-10/63511.1 | Knives |
Knife
|
Alaska
| |
| 08-36-70/74368.1 | Priest's knives for cutting open chickens |
Knife
|
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Eastern Lepanto | |
| 08-36-70/74368 | Priest's knives for cutting open chickens |
Knife
|
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Eastern Lepanto | |
|
Image Not Available
for Pieces of obsidian, flakes, broken knives and arrows
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Edged Tools
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Copan
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