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58-18-1
From: Guatemala | Kaminaljuyu
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 58-18-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Maya |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Kaminaljuyu |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Locus | Mound D-IV-2 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Obsidian |
| Description | Cloudy streaked obsidian. Core-struck flake; triangular in cross-section with bilaterally chipped tang. Use-scarred blade edges. One of a cache of 9 or 10 similar blades in the summit platform of Mound D-IV-2. Another is at the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Two others seen of this type for sale in an antiquity shop in Guatemala City by William Coe in 1957. |
| Length | 25.6 cm |
| Width | 6.9 cm |
| Thickness | 2.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Alfred V. Kidder, 1958 |
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