End Blade Fragment

69-16-457

From: Alaska | Unalakleet

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 69-16-457
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Alaska | Unalakleet
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Archaeology Area N3, W4 - overburden
Locus House 120
Section American
Materials Stone
Description

Brown, fine-grained rock with concoidal fracture. Edges are straight and perpendicular to base. Base: straight and perpendicular to longitudinal axis. Flakes are driven off base parallel to longitudinal axis. Tang edges are straight. Tang-tip junction unknown. Flake scars not parallel to one another. Artifact is broken obliquely to longitudinal axis.

Length 2.1 cm
Width 1.4 cm
Credit Line Alaska Unalaklett Expedition; Bruce Lutz, 1969

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