Shell sample

Museum number:
1-11406
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010011406
Alternate number:
III 1 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.212 and Acc.214
Object count:
1
Description:
Whole and finely broken and disintegrated clam shells, etc. Analyzed by Gifford (1916) Composition of California Shellmounds. University of California Publications In American Archaeology and Ethnology 12(1):1-29.
Donor:
A. V. Wepfer and Nels C. Nelson
Collection place:
CA-CCo-295, Richmond, Contra Costa County
Collector:
Nels C. Nelson
Collection date:
December 1906
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Shell samples
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Associated funerary objects
Comment:
Card stamped: Discarded 1955
Loans:
S2004-2005 #8: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (May 17, 2005–June 20, 2025)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell sample, accession number 1-11406, described as Whole and finely broken and disintegrated clam shells, etc. Analyzed by Gifford (1916) Composition of California Shellmounds. University of California Publications In American Archaeology and Ethnology 12(1):1-29.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell sample, accession number 1-11406, described as Whole and finely broken and disintegrated clam shells, etc. Analyzed by Gifford (1916) Composition of California Shellmounds. University of California Publications In American Archaeology and Ethnology 12(1):1-29.

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