Obsidian Knife
Unknown people (California culture)
California culture
Obsidian
Overall: 15 3/16 × 2 1/4 × 3/8 in. (38.5 × 5.8 × 1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. James Foster Scott, in memory of her late husband, Victor J. Evans
157.9.13885
Geography
Place Found: United States, North America
Object Name
Artifact
Research Area
Archaeology
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Victor Justice Evans (1865-1931), Washington, D.C, date unknown; to his widow, (Mabel) Karen Gram Schaefer Evans Scott Allen (1891-1974), Meriden, New Hampshire, 1931; given to present collection, 1957.
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