Wealth Blade
Northern California
late 19th century (?)
obsidian
height: 17 ¾"
Inventory # S3983-1
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Provenance
John George Baedlein (b. 1865 d 1958), a Kansas City architect and amateur archelogist
The Robert Hayden Museum, Georgia
George Terasaki collection, New York, NY, acquired 1960’s to 1970’s
Exhibited
The Robert Hayden Museum, Georgia
Related Examples
Denver Art Museum, cat nos. 1944.67 and 1954.382 – See: Conn, Richard. Native American Art in the Denver Art Museum. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979, pg. 270, pls. 373 and 373
Kroeber, Alfred A. Handbook of the Indians of California, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78, Washington DC, 1925, pg. 26, pl. 2
Miles, Charles. Indian and Eskimo Artifacts of North America. New York: Bonanza Books, 1963, pg. 147, pl. 6.17