Slab
49-25-60
From: United States of America | Alaska | Admiralty Island | Mole Harbor
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 49-25-60 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Taka Tlingit |
Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Admiralty Island | Mole Harbor |
Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Sandstone |
Description | Carefully smoothed on one or both surfaces; some neatly grooved along edges. Probably used as whetstone; possibly some used as mirrors or palettes. Found by Alan Hasselborg in digging his garden on the prehistoric site. He believes the village was abandoned after a massacre about 130 years ago. |
Length | 34.5 cm |
Width | 12 cm |
Credit Line | Survey of Northern Tlingit Country, Frederica de Laguna, 1949 |
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