Pistol
- Museum number:
- 1-214061
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010214061
- Alternate number:
- 7-1248 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
- Accession number:
- Acc.643
- Description:
- Breech loading pistol, single shot. Grips missing, and grip straps and trigger guard bent. Caliber .22. Uncertain origin, possibly American. top-break action with breech lever on left side. False hammer on right for cocking. Heavily corroded.
- Donor:
- R. W. Hanna
- Collection place:
- United States
- Verbatim coll. place:
- ; United States of America
- Culture or time period:
- Modoc and United States Historic
- Collector:
- Charles Shock, Daniel Ream, and Henry Shock
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Pistols
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- 1929
- Context of use:
- Taken from Modoc braves at the time of their surrender or picked up at later date in the lava beds.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 7.25 inches
- Legacy documentation:
-