Chaco Canyon, San Juan County, New Mexico, United States, North America
Accession Date:
1927
Notes:
From card: "From R. 244; made from left humerus of mule deer; inlaid with turquoise, jet & haliotis shell; discoidal jet & haliotis inlays at head. Illus Pl 36c Misc Col vol 124. 2 small pieces of inlaid turquoise were lost while being identified in Mammal Dept. See p. 382, No. 111 in Fields, Virginia M., and Victor Zamudio-Taylor; 2001; The road to Aztlan art from a mythic homeland; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where object is identified as inlaid bone scraper, New Mexico, Chaco Canyon, Pueblo Bonito, c. A.D. 700-1130, turquoise, bone, jet, shell, 3.1 cm. x 12.3 cm. x 3 cm.
Made from left humerus of mule deer; inlaid with turquoise, jet and haliotis shell; discoidal jet and haliotis inlays at head.
