Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
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Trapezoidal. Translucent with brown inclusions.
Green/white debitage.
Three bone fragments and three shell fragments. Found in bag labeled "Site #10-ID-12/2, Cat #MS10, Bone and shell sample 0"-1"exterior dump S end shelter. 11/06/55 GLC." According to Guy Marden (see p. 7 of his Draft report of Native American Indian Burials from the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, copy received at Burke 1995), cat.# 1987-12/7 (referred to as Bag #7 in his report) contained the following: "bone and shell samples from an exterior dump at the south end of the rock shelter. These shells and bone fragments, marked MS10, were originally in Bag #7 along with the objects marked MS9 (cat.# 1987-12/5). We separated these objects by catalog number, but preserved all the original information with each set of artifacts. 07/19/1995, K. Smith. These bones were separated from the collections to verify that they were not human. Stephanie Jolivette, UW Archaeology Graduate Student, examined them on 6/22/2010 and confirmed that they were not human. Because they were separated from the collection, they were not identified at the time of the transfer to the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in 2009. M. Noble 6/22/2010. This material will need to be deaccessioned and transferred to the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. M. Hotz 7/13/2010
Impregnated with dirt, shallow pit on one face. .
Flat, semispherical in plan view, 1 cm thick.
Translucent. (Nlsn 1969:311 Fig. 41 (igj): The Sunset Creek Site (45-KT-28).
Brown, edge retouched.
Tan, edge retouched.
Black obsidian lanceolate point with concave base. K. Peterson 2/3/99
Tan/brown chert, contracting stem, tip broken.