Stone & Glass Beads (1 String)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1883
name: label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department of Interior
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Wheeler Survey, Vol. VII, Pl. 13, Fig. 1, 2, 4, 5 & 6. Stone = blue fluorite".
label: Notes
content: Beads, including 27 fluorite beads, recovered from the Chumash archaeological sites of La Patera and Dos Pueblos in the Santa Barbara Channel region of California, where fluorite artifacts are extremely rare. The precise age of these beads is unknown, but Californian fluorite beads date primarily to the Mission period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Purplish-blue in color, these beads include disk, cylinder or barrel, tube, and globular types that have been drilled biconically. Some of the beads also feature red painted numerals that correspond to Plate XIII before page 263 of the “Report upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian, in Charge of First Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army,” Vol. VII – Archaeology, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1879. Retrieved October 8, 2021, from https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33280022 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Nov 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 34
place: label: Place
content: La Patera, Santa Barbara County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013715
label: USNM Number
content: A62700-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bead