FMNH 6553.nosub[1]

  • 6553 stone; sandstone knife blade
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    Transcriber: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | 103 | Country Curacao West Indies | Locality Aruba | People Carib Stock | Name Kinfe-blade of fine-grained dark sandstone, shaped to a blade along one edge. One end is carefully rounded, the other end broken. The other long side has been incised & broken along the incised line | Collection Gift of Curacao Commission, W.C.E. thru M. O'Higgins. | Notes Found & catalogued. October, 1918. J.A. Mason. | Width 2 | Length 12 | Height .6 cm | Price [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT. | 6553 | Acc. 5
Catalog Number: 6553.nosub[1]
Description: knife blade
Materials: stone; sandstone
Cultural Attribution: Carib
Accession Number: [5] World's Columbian Exposition - Commission for Curacao (Gift)
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Collector/Source: World's Columbian Exposition - Commission for Curacao - Commission for Curacao, Meton O. Higgins
EMu IRN: 1295518
GUID: 32b56071-f6ab-417c-ad43-6a36d042eb2a

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