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Object Number
00-8-70/55424.2
Display Title
Obsidian knives
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Knife, carved obsidian, circular
Classification
- Knife
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Chile
/
Rapa Nui
Materials
Obsidian
Dimensions
Overall: 13 x 11.5 x 2 cm (5 1/8 x 4 1/2 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
55424.2
Provenance
Collector
Alexander Agassiz
(1899-1900)
Expedition
Albatross Expedition
(1899-1900)
Collector
Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
(1899-1900)
Collector
U.S. Fish Commission Ship Albatross Expedition
(1899-1900)
Donor
Donated by
Alexander Agassiz
(1900)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|
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| |
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Blade
|
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| |
|
Image Not Available
for Obsidian knives
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Prismatic blade
|
Teuchitlan
| |
| 11-6-20/C5701 | Obsidian knives |
Prismatic blade
|
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| |
| 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
| |
| 08-4-10/73306 | Jasper and obsidian knives |
Projectile Point
|
California
| |
| 12-10-40/E2117 | Obsidian knives, curved |
Edged Tools
|
Greece
| |
| 967-49-20/23238 | 6 obsidian flake knives |
Blade
|
Kaminaljuyu
| |
|
Image Not Available
for Obsidian flaked knives
| 97-44-20/C1886 | Obsidian flaked knives |
Edged Tools
|
Excavations 2, 3, 4
| |
|
Image Not Available
for Broken obsidian knives
| 97-44-20/C1681 | Broken obsidian knives |
Biface
|
Honduras
|