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Cordage

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Object Number:53-54-451
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: United States of America
Alaska
Knight Island
Yakutat Bay
Old Town
Culture Area: Northwest Coast Culture Area
Locus: Storage house, subsurface pit #15, above floor of box, depth:39"
Period: Old Town II
Section:American
Materials:Spruce Root (uncertain)
Outside Diameter:0.3 cm
Credit Line:University Museum / Bryn Mawr College Expedition to Alaska; Frederica de Laguna, 1953
Other Number:208 - Field No SF

Description

Black, carbonized fragments, glued or vanished, partly. Two-ply, two-twist, probably spruce root. Sand sticking to surface, tangled mass, medium weight.

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