Slab
49-25-72
From: United States of America | Alaska | Admiralty Island | Mole Harbor
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 49-25-72 |
| 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 | 9.8 cm |
| Width | 4.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Survey of Northern Tlingit Country, Frederica de Laguna, 1949 |
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