Abalone shell fragments
- Object status:
- Deaccessioned
- Museum number:
- 1-16652
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010016652
- Accession number:
- Acc.402
- Object count:
- 3
- Description:
- Abalone shells, fragmentary; "haliotis rufescens" added in pencil.
- Donor:
- Nels C. Nelson
- Collection place:
- CA-SFr-7, San Francisco County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- 25 East; ca. 7 deep
- Collector:
- Nels C. Nelson
- Collection date:
- December 1910
- Taxon:
- Haliotis rufescens (red abalone)
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Fragments (object portions) and Shell samples
- Accession date:
- 1911
- Context of use:
- Probably used as dishes as one of them shows asphalt.
- Department:
- Associated funerary objects
- Legacy documentation:
-