Pin

53-54-427

From: United States of America | Alaska | Knight Island | Yakutat Bay | Old Town

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 53-54-427
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience United States of America | Alaska | Knight Island | Yakutat Bay | Old Town
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Locus Mound B - lower. Dark gray sand with charcoal fragments.
Section American
Materials Bone
Description

Dark, varnished. Slightly curved pin with point set off by groove. Blunt end wrapped in copper strip. Broken scalloped ridge along upper shaft, with 7 holes (5 broken) in it and chevrons and grooves along one side. Shallow groove below this. One side broken and roughened.

Height 0.8 cm
Length 13.8 cm
Width 0.6 cm
Credit Line University Museum / Bryn Mawr College Expedition to Alaska; Frederica de Laguna, 1953
Other Number 375 - Field No SF

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