blade
- Museum number
- Am1997,Q.1584
- Description
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Fragment of obsidian with one sharpened edge
- Dimensions
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Length: 7.30 centimetres
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Width: 5.80 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1825
- Acquisition notes
- Found apparently unregistered in South American collections in 1997. Formally registered in June 2013.
Object is probably associated with a small collection of obsidian, stone and pottery objects Am1997,Q.1572-1580 which are accompanied by a paper label which reads "Obsidian - Mexico from which chips have been knocked off - from the small pyramid Chollula and on the great pyramid of the sun [Teotihuacan] mixed with fragments of red earthenware and human bones - Presented to Dr. Buckland by Mr. Bullock."
This is clearly a reference to the Bullock/Buckland Mexican collection acquired in 1825, which according to the records included 16 obsidian blades (Am1825,1210.26-41, all missing) and a mixed collection from Cholula or Teotihuacan containing "terracotta, stone, volcanic matter [and] bone" (Am1825,1210.52, missing) which probably correlates with the card.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1997,Q.1584
