Whistle

Museum number:
1-1467
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
51 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.17 and Acc.86
Description:
Bone, wrapped in natural colored fiber and cotton fabric; cotton strip attached near proximal end. Black mastic plug at distal end.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Whistles
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1903 and November 20, 1901
Context of use:
Used in white deerskin dance.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 12 centimeters and width 1.1 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-4802
Loans:
S1983-1984 #48: Hoopa Tribal Museum (May 15, 1984–September 21, 1984)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Whistle, accession number 1-1467, described as Bone, wrapped in natural colored fiber and cotton fabric; cotton strip attached near proximal end. Black mastic plug at distal end.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Whistle, accession number 1-1467, described as Bone, wrapped in natural colored fiber and cotton fabric; cotton strip attached near proximal end. Black mastic plug at distal end.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-1467, described as Bone, wrapped in natural colored fiber and cotton fabric; cotton strip attached near proximal end. Black mastic plug at distal end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-1467, described as Bone, wrapped in natural colored fiber and cotton fabric; cotton strip attached near proximal end. Black mastic plug at distal end.

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