Wascoite Jasper
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Nov 1990
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-557 (Wascoite Jasper): Not a collection from archaeological context. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, modern flint-knapers' work (?), and heat-treated specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-557 (Wascoite Jasper)
label: Notes
content: Wascoite, also known as Biggs Jasper, Walaweeteese, or Biggs Junction, is a brown jasper or chalcedony.It may have thin brown lines in a lighter brown and tawny matrix. It has inclusions of small black dendrites of a manganese material. When heat-treated it becomes root beer to blood-red maroon in color. It has a very smooth, opaque texture. It forms in bands of basalt, small beds, lenses, or dike-like bodies, sandwhiched between two successive basalt flows.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: n.d.
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Deposited along the Columbia River near Maryhill, Klickitat Co., Washington, across the river from Biggs, Sherman Co., Oregon; US Route 97 crosses the river between Maryhill and Biggs; The Dalles, Wasco Co., Oregon
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Calles Area, Oregon, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2071475
label: USNM Number
content: A599302-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone