Shell sample

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
1-11403
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010011403
Alternate number:
II 1 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.212 and Acc.214
Description:
Medium broken clam and mussel shells. 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
Verbatim coll. place:
Stratum level A
Collector:
Nels C. Nelson
Collection date:
December 1906
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Shell samples
Production date:
1686
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Associated funerary objects
Comment:
Card stamped: Discarded 1955
Loans:
S2003-2004 #2: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (July 18, 2003–December 31, 2003) and 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 1-11403, described as Medium broken clam and mussel shells. 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 1-11403, described as Medium broken clam and mussel shells. 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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