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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
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

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.

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