End Blade Fragment
68-22-276
From: Alaska | Unalakleet
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 68-22-276 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Alaska | Unalakleet |
| Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
| Locus | IP House | Test area in top of floor midden near north wall |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Chert (uncertain) |
| Description | Brown, fine-grained rock with concoidal fracture (chert or volcanic origin). One surface burnt or weathered. Probably tyoe ld end blade (arcuate with large base). Base straight and perpendicular to longitudinal axis. Some flakes driven off base parallel to longitudinal axis. Flake scars large, shallow and not parallel to each other. Broken at oblique angle near tip. |
| Length | 2.8 cm |
| Width | 1.7 cm |
| Thickness | 0.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Alaska Unalaklett Expedition, Bruce Lutz, 1968 |
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