Rope model

Museum number:

1-7460

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Alternate number:

8 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.177

Description:

Made from Milkweed fibre, triple strand.

Donor:

Charles Atwood Kofoid, D. L. Spencer, Miss Faurote, and William A. Setchell

Collection place:

Butte County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Butte

Culture or time period:

Maidu

Collector:

D. L. Spencer

Collection date:

1904

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Ropework (genre by technique) and Ropework (visual works)

Function:

1.9 Multiple Utility

Accession date:

1905

Context of use:

Demonstration model.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Remarks: Made by the Indians at the direction of D. L. Spencer per arrangement of Alfred L. Kroeber with R. B. Dixon.

Loans:

S1971-1972 #67: California State University, Chico (December 30, 1971–October 18, 1973)

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