FMNH 241977.nosub[1]

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    Scanner: Mr. Christopher J. Philipp : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    Transcriber: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Chicago Natural History Museum - Archaeology | 126 | Provenience: VENEZUELA, State of Falcon, El Jobo | People or Culture: El Jobo complex | Object: "knife" fragment | Material: brown quartzite | Description: tip fragment with alternate, bifacial flaking. One edge is quite carefully worked, the other is crude and sinuous. | Dimensions: (in cm.) L 5.8 W 4.1 over | Collection: Exchange with Instituto de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas, Venezuela, 10 October 1960. [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 241977 | Field No. | Neg. No. | Acc. 2718 [BACK] [ILLUSTRATION]
Catalog Number: 241977.nosub[1]
Description: knife fragment
Materials: stone; quartzite
Cultural Attribution: El Jobo Complex
Accession Number: [2718] Instituto de Investigations Cientificas (Exchange)
Accession Year: 1960
City/Town: El Jobo
Collector/Source: Instituto de Investigations Cientificas, J. M. Cruxent : Instituto de Investigations Cientificas, Instituto de Investigations Cientificas, J. M. Cruxent : Instituto de Investigations Cientificas
EMu IRN: 1149465
GUID: 905b612f-8aa7-4461-b036-a457ebd98b84

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