Dish

Museum number:
1-1189
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010001189
Alternate number:
3189 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Steatite, rectangular dish, with curved sides and upturned ends. Residual glue on interior surface. Piece chipped from rim. For making sturgeon glue.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Klamath River below Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Klamath River area; Klamath R. below Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dishes (vessels for food)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
December 7, 1901
Context of use:
For making sturgeon glue.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 14 centimeters and width 8.9 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-1189, described as Steatite, rectangular dish, with curved sides and upturned ends. Residual glue on interior surface. Piece chipped from rim. For making sturgeon glue.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-1189, described as Steatite, rectangular dish, with curved sides and upturned ends. Residual glue on interior surface. Piece chipped from rim. For making sturgeon glue.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-1189, described as Steatite, rectangular dish, with curved sides and upturned ends. Residual glue on interior surface. Piece chipped from rim. For making sturgeon glue.

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