Bone Fragment

Description: Curved piece of bone, grey in colour, with various shades of brown. Petrified soil and other organic material present. There is also some streaks of pale green from being buried for so long. The bone shows signs of breaking down until petrification and is fragile. This item was originally identifi…

Description: Curved piece of bone, grey in colour, with various shades of brown. Petrified soil and other organic material present. There is also some streaks of pale green from being buried for so long. The bone shows signs of breaking down until petrification and is fragile. This item was originally identified in the database as petrified wood from the Lake Babine mammoth, but was identified as mammoth bone by an archaeologist from UNBC in 2018. It was originally identified as a bone fragment in 2002 at time of original donation.

Narrative: This item came in with a mammoth bone, July 9, 2002, which was found in the Granisle area. Refer to notes for 2009.23.2 for more information on the find.