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- Museum number:
- 1-838
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010000838
- Alternate number:
- 2838 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.19
- Description:
- Thin carved redwood. Painted cross on the handle.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Hoopa Valley, Humboldt County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Humboldt; Hoopa Valley
- Culture or time period:
- Hupa
- Collector:
- Philip Mills Jones
- Collection date:
- July 27, 1901
- Taxon:
- Sequoia sempervirens
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Function:
- 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- December 7, 1901
- Context of use:
- Used by male dnacers in Hupa girls puberty rites.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 70.2 centimeters
- Comment:
- Remarks: "... described by Kroeber in "Handbook" [...] and by Goddard (UCAAE 1:1)
- Legacy documentation:
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