Scraper

Blade

Stone

NA9341

From: New Mexico | Rio Grande Region

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA9341
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Mexico | Rio Grande Region
Culture Area Southwest Culture Area
Section American
Materials Stone | Chert | Quartz | Quartzite | Barite | Sandstone | Amethyst | Animal Bone | Rhyolite (uncertain) | Shale (uncertain) | Slate (uncertain)
Description

5 large scrapers (3 of quartzite, 2 of chert). 1 small scraper (chert). 5 blades (3 of quartzite and 2 of translucent quartz). 1 large piece of non-worked barite. 1 piece of unworked shale/slate. 3 pieces of smooth and rounded stone (igneous/metamorphic rock). 3 smooth and rounded pieces of stone (igneous or metamorphic). 4 pieces of polished and rounded stone (mafic/igneous stone). 1 piece of flat stone with a rounded top (felsic/igneous stone-maybe Rhyolite). 1 piece of rounded and crumbly sandstone. 1 piece of amethyst. 1 eroded piece of animal vertebrae. 1 pendant made of barite.

Credit Line Gift of Otto T. Mallery, 1921

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