Wenatchie Agate (AKA Sagebrush Agate)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 2 Feb 1991
name: label: Collector
content: D. C. Waldorf
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-777 (Wenatchie Agate): Direct collection from outcrop. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, surrounding matrix, some modern flint-knappers' work, some heat-treated specimens, and some naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-777 (Wenatchie Agate)
label: Notes
content: (Information obtained from Sagebrush Agate Type Sheet): Sagebrush Agate, also known as Wenatchee Agate, is white, banded tan and reddish brown; variegated tan, brown, light orange-gray); variegated (pale red, light grayish green, orange); grayish-light gray; variegated (gray-white, dark brown, light gray); light orange-brown and orange-gray; variegated (reddish gray and grayish green); orange-white patches; grayish tan and honey; variegated (light gray, red-brown, light gray); yellow; red-brown, orange-white, light gray; variegated (red-brown, tan, light yellow-gray); grayish-white; grayish red; red-brown and honey in color. It has a translucent, very fine, glossy texture. It is within bentonite deposits.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: (Information obtained from Sagebrush Agate Type Sheet): n.d.
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: (Information obtained from Sagebrush Agate Type Sheet): Sagebrush Flat Road, Grant Co., WA
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: (Information obtained from Sagebrush Agate Type Sheet): Sagebrish lithic material may possibly be the same used by the Paleoindians to make some of the tools excavated at the Richey Clovis Cache, East Wenatchee, WA
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 51
place: label: Place
content: Ephrata, Grant County, Washington, 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: A599789-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone