Stone Hammer
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Nov 1883
name: label: Collector
content: Lt P.H. Ray
label: Collector
content: John Murdoch
label: Collector
content: Middleton Smith
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Signal Service
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "56629-37. ...HEAD, A CYLINDER OF STONE GENERALLY OF MASSIVE PEETOLITE. WHEN HAFTED, LASHED TO A WOODEN OR BONE HANDLE WITH THONG.....#56633-7: SENT TO MR. WILSON, DEPT. PRE-HIST. ARCHAEOLOGY. NOS. 56634 AND -37 ILLUS. IN BAE 9TH AR, FIGS. 23-4, P. 94." FROM CONDITION REPORT FOR HALL 9 TAKEDOWN (C. VALENTOUR 3/98): "SHAPED WOODEN HANDLE W/ LIGHT GREEN STONE HEAD LASHED TOGETHER W/ STRIPS OF RAWHIDE. STONE HAS GENERALLY RECTANGULAR SHAPE, 1 END LARGER THAN OTHER."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Point Barrow, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013712
label: USNM Number
content: E56636-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hammer
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 19 cm
label: Width - Stone
content: 0.1 cm