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Start Over Object class Specimens and samples Collection place Amador County, California Accession number Acc.UCAS-89
Hearst Museum object titled Bark fragment, accession number 1-127381, described as Bark fragment. According to Richard F. Ambro, "Appears to be a bent fragment of dried tule or cattail; unburned. Length, approximate: 60.0 mm; maximum width, approximate: 7.5 mm.
Hearst Museum object titled Bark fragment, accession number 1-127388, described as Appears to be a coil of shaved bark; if uncoiled, length is approximately 180 mm, width is approximately 3.5 mm. Possibly part of a basket. (Richard F. Ambro).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bone fragment and tooth, accession number 1-127397.2, described as 8 bone fragments and tooth.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bone fragments, accession number 1-127383.1, described as 14 bone fragments.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bone fragments, accession number 1-127420.2, described as 12 bone fragments.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bone fragments, accession number 1-127463.1, described as 4 bone fragments.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bone fragments, accession number 1-127445.1, described as 8 bone fragments.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Corn, accession number 1-127430, described as Corn kernels.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Corn, accession number 1-127386, described as Corn cob with husk. According to Volney H. Jones (1973): "This item is a corn cob which is remarkably well preserved and fresh looking, with most of the somewhat shredded husks still attached. The cob is 11.2 cm. long, but a small portion of the tip has been consumed by insects. The cob formerly bore 12 rows of kernels, but none is now attached. Except in the immediate butt area, the rows are fairly straight and regular. The form is generally spindle-shaped, that is, tapering rather uniformly from the butt to the tip. In cross-section, the cob is elliptical or compressed at the butt end, with a maximum butt diameter of 2.8 cm. and a minimum butt diameter of 2.4 cm. By whatever standards it may be judged, this was a small ear of corn.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Corn, accession number 1-127371, described as Corn kernels. According to Volney H. Jones (1973): "This lot consists of three corn kernels, all of which are of a pale yellow or lemon color. All have flinty, translucent endosperm in the exterior portions, but a center of white starch is visible through the surface layer. One of the kernels is incomplete, having been damaged by insects. The soft interior starch has been virtually consumed in the damaged kernel, but most of the hard exterior area left intact. It may be remarked, incidentally, that the Hopi Indians assert that in storage the softer varieties of their corn are attacked by corn weevils, but that the harder varieties are avoided by these insects. All three kernels have longitudinal grooves ("husk striations") visible on the upper surface, and none shows any tendency toward denting. The general... [description truncated]

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