Mortar and arrow straightener
- Museum number:
- 1-3940
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010003940
- Alternate number:
- 938 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.111
- Description:
- Mortar/arrow straightener. Made of steatite, oval. Shallow transverse groove at center of bottom. Mortar is for tobacco. For use with 1-3941.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Lemoore, Kings County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Kings; Lemoore
- Culture or time period:
- Yokuts
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber and Tatci Tom
- Collection date:
- December 1903 - January 1904
- Materials:
- Soapstone (metamorphic rock)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Ground stone and Mortars (grinding tools)
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits and 5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Mortar is for tobacco. For use with 1-3941.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- height 2.9 centimeters, length 8 centimeters, and width 6.3 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-