Side Blade Fragment

56-28-2208

From: Alaska | Norton Sound | Cape Denbigh | Iyatayet

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 56-28-2208
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Denbigh Flint Complex
Provenience Alaska | Norton Sound | Cape Denbigh | Iyatayet
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Locus IYZ-5B
Section American
Materials Chert (uncertain) | Chalcedony (uncertain)
Description

Bifacially retouched by removing a series of parallel flakes at a diagonal to both surfaces. Tip and portion of blade midsection.

Length 1.65 cm
Width 0.9 cm
Thickness 0.2 cm
Credit Line Gift of J. Louis Giddings, 1956

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