End Blade Fragment
69-16-845
From: Alaska | Unalakleet
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 69-16-845 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Alaska | Unalakleet |
| Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
| Archaeology Area | N3.0, W14.5 - outside house |
| Locus | IP House |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Chert (uncertain) |
| Description | Brown, fine-grained rock with concoidal fracture (chert or volcanic origin). Possibly Type 1d end blade (arcuate with large base). Base straight and probably perpendicular to longitudinal axis. Flakes driven off edges of base perpendicular to longitudinal axis. Flake scars not parallel to one another. Broken obliquely to longitudinal axis - tang element remains. |
| Length | 1.2 cm |
| Width | 1.4 cm |
| Thickness | 0.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Alaska Unalaklett Expedition; Bruce Lutz, 1969 |
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