Arrow straightener
- Museum number:
- 1-10853
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010010853
- Alternate number:
- 857 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.264, Acc.265, and Acc.266
- Description:
- Made of stone. Elliptical shape, thin, transverse single-groove at center.
- Donor:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection place:
- Drum Valley, Fresno County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Tulare; Drum Valley
- Culture or time period:
- Yokuts
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection date:
- February 1907
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Arrow straighteners
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1907
- Context of use:
- Arrows are straightened by drawing through this groove while the stone is hot.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- width 5.5 centimeters, height 2.2 centimeters, and length 11.8 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-