Digging stick

Museum number:

1-10394

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010394

Alternate number:

402 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254

Description:

Digging stick. Made from a tree.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Picayune rancheria, Madera County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Madera; Picayune

Culture or time period:

Yokuts

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

1.2 Gathering

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

For digging.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Native name: "asai", "tcupui" (a tree which grows only in the mountains).

Loans:

S1962-1963 #19: Montecito Elementary School/Maxine Rockwell (October 23, 1962–October 25, 1962), S1963-1964 #73: University of California, Santa Barbara (March 18, 1964–April 17, 1965), S1966-1967 #67: Education Department (UC Berkeley)/Lily (February 2, 1967–February 27, 1967), and S1975-1976 #39: Department of Nutritional Sciences (UC Berkeley) (December 2, 1975–December 18, 1975)

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