2 cocoons of silk moth (Samia rubra, Behr); on stick wrapped with cloth and twine.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Dunlap, Fresno County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Fresno; Dunlap
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
February 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Musical rattles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Native name: "canetc". Photo: 15-4996. Published: In Waterman Native Musical Instruments of California, Outwest, April 1908. Remarks: June 15, 1966 - specimen found with only one cocoon. Cf. 1-2403.