FMNH 102434.nosub[1]

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | 103 | Country Virgin Islands, West Indies | Locality St. Thomas, Magen's Bay | People Insular Arawak, Arawakan Stock | NameLarge petaloid celt of slaty black rock. Carefully shaped and smoothed but not polished. Blade entirely broken away. Basal end relatively sharp point. | Collection Exchange from the Museum of the American Indian, 1919. Theodoor de Booy, Collector. | Notes | Width 6 | Length 13.5 | Height 4 | Price | [ILLUSTRATION] [LEFT MARGIN] A | 102434 | ENT | Original Number 7/4771 | Acc. 1303
Catalog Number: 102434.nosub[1]
Description: celt
Materials: stone; rock
Cultural Attribution: Arawak
Accession Number: [1303] Museum of the American Indian : Museum of the American Indian (Exchange)
Accession Year:
Other Numbers: 7/4771
Collector/Source: Museum of the American Indian
EMu IRN: 1002674
GUID: 0c4a4e55-2205-42dd-bfed-69e71f6ecf38

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