Winnower
- Museum number:
- 1-71232
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010071232
- Alternate number:
- 26 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.838
- Description:
- Winnower, open plain twined, with cloth strap attached and a reinforcing hoop around the rim. No decoration. Made with shoots.
- Donor:
- Grace Blair DePue
- Collection place:
- Northern Sierras, Northern California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California
- Culture or time period:
- Eastern Miwok
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- 1900-1944
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Basketry (object genre), Twined weaving, and Winnowers (agricultural equipment)
- Function:
- 1.2 Gathering
- Accession date:
- February 19, 1945
- Context of use:
- Used in food preparation - specifically, in separating seeds from their shells.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- 49 centimeters and length 61 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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