Whetstone

69-16-379

From: Alaska | Unalakleet

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 69-16-379
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Alaska | Unalakleet
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Archaeology Area N9.5, W9 - house fill
Locus House 119
Section American
Materials Slate (uncertain)
Description

Dark, fine-grained rock (slate?). Irregularly shaped. One surface smooth and has striation marks. Other surface broken along cleavage plane of the slate, with one small section of the original, smoothed surface remaining.

Length 8.45 cm
Width 3.5 cm
Thickness 1.3 cm
Credit Line Alaska Unalaklett Expedition; Bruce Lutz, 1969

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