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Start Over Collection place Northern California Collector Philip Mills Jones
Hearst Museum object titled Acorn cracker, accession number 1-953, described as stone for breaking acorn shells.
Hearst Museum object titled Acorn meal basket, accession number 1-503, described as Basket for meal. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring coiled basket bowl, used, with food residue, apparently used for sifting meal. The wefts are closely spaced. The start is knotted and twined. The coil foundation is a mix of splints and rods. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud, and possibly another peeled shoot. The rim is plain wrapped with three herringbone stitches at the ending. The designs are near the upper ⅓ of the basket where there are one coil wide horizontal bands with breaks in them, as well as random rectangles. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and the majority of wefts have a down to the right slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are primarily concealed. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The weft stitches are not often split on either face.
Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 1-1173, described as Curved stone handle; iron blade lashed to distal end with hide strips and twine. Rawhide finger protector lashed to handle with fiber. For scraping away chars in boat and box making.
Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 1-973, described as Stone adze handle with steel blade.
Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 1-1225, described as Adze handle, stone. Tapered cylindrical handle at one end, flattened notch for blade at other. Rawhide lashing looped around blade notch. Ground stone.
Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 1-1218, described as Adze handle, stone, with recess for blade at distal end, downward curving tip at the other. Recessed hollow for finger grip. Well polished from use. Ground stone.
Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 1-1081, described as Made of stone, cylindrical; with flanges at middle and both ends; flattened area at distal end for blade attachment. Ground stone.
Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 1-1080, described as Made of stone, cylindrical; curved distal end, with notch at end; finger grips carved into proximal end. Ground stone.
Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 1-1082, described as Adze handle
Hearst Museum object titled Air bladder, accession number 1-1168, described as Sturgeon bladder, to be boiled to make glue

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