Dye
- Museum number:
- 2-15218
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020015218
- Accession number:
- Acc.700
- Description:
- Rock alum.
- Donor:
- Willard W. Hill
- Collection place:
- Crownpoint, McKinley County, New Mexico
- Verbatim coll. place:
- New Mexico; McKinley; Crownpoint
- Culture or time period:
- Navajo
- Collector:
- Willard W. Hill
- Collection date:
- 1935
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 8.3 For Manufacturing
- Accession date:
- 1936
- Context of use:
- Used in making yellow buckskin dye, also for polishing silver. In polishing, boil rock in water, immerse silver.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Comment:
- Used in making yellow buckskin dye, also for polishing silver. In polishing, boil rock in water, and immerse silver.
- Legacy documentation:
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