Rhomboid charm thread-cross of tules with three pendant cocoons of the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus, Cramer.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
September 1903
Materials:
Tule (grass material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Charms
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 28.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-6082, 3130, 6628" Published: BAE Bull. 78 (Kroeber's Handbook of California Indians), fig. 16" Remarks: "cf. 1-2403