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424854
Object Number:66-30-10
Current Location: Mexico and Central America Gallery
Currently On Display
Culture:Teotihuacan (uncertain)
Provenience: Mexico (Central America)
Valley of Mexico
Culture Area: Central American
Date Made: 200-900 CE
Early Date: 200
Late Date: 900
Section:American
Materials:Obsidian
Length: 12.75 cm
Width: 2.9 cm
Thickness: 0.8 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Carlo Gay, Teochita, Inc., 1966

Description

-4 to -13: 9 specimens of of green obsidian, translucent to partly opaque. All specimens exhibit a very regular bifacial parallel flaking lanceolate with convex base.

-10: Point damaged; two chips at base.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Mexico and Central American Gallery (16 Nov 2019) View Objects in Exhibition

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