University Appropriation and University of California Archaeological Survey
Collection place:
CA-Cal-99 (Winslow Cave), Calaveras County, California
Collector:
Clement W. Meighan and Martin A. Baumhoff
Collection date:
April 1952
Materials:
Limestone
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects)
Accession date:
April 18, 1952
Department:
Unassociated funerary objects
Comment:
Small cup-shaped biconically drilled artifact of soft white stone; probably alabaster. Specimen resembles larger "pipe" artifacts from the mortuary caverns described by Payen. Possibly a bead or very small pipe bowl?
Loans:
S1964-1965 #70: Department of Anthropology (CSU Sacramento)/Sam Payen (March 12, 1965–May 1965) and S1969-1970 #98: California State University, Sacramento/Jerald Jay Johnson (March 19, 1970–November 8, 1971)