Rope

Museum number:
1-230631a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm2101230631a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.2869
Description:
Reddish brown color. 3-ply Z-doubled of cords that are each 2-ply Z-doubled of still smaller 2-ply S-doubled, Z-spun plies. Native name and meaning: "dol'o" - burial rope ("kh'ali" - string for nets, etc.); "kh'ebi" - Apocynum cannabinum, "Indian hemp".
Donor:
Jennie Regalado and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Colusa, Colusa County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Colusa; Colusa
Culture or time period:
Patwin
Collector:
Jennie Regalado and Mollie Ramsey Bill
Collection date:
ca. 1870
Taxon:
Apocynum cannabinum
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ropework (genre by technique) and Ropework (visual works)
Context of use:
To wrap a corpse for burial. This piece not used because one of the Indian doctors around the turn of the century had told them not to bury the old way any more, but in a coffin, "with the head to the east and feet to the west" also bow and arrows if a man.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
(a)— diameter 8 millimeters, (b)— length 81.2 meters, (a)— length 43.2 meters, and (b)— diameter 8 millimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Rope, accession number 1-230631a,b, described as Reddish brown color. 3-ply Z-doubled of cords that are each 2-ply Z-doubled of still smaller 2-ply S-doubled, Z-spun plies. Native name and meaning: "dol'o" - burial rope ("kh'ali" - string for nets, etc.); "kh'ebi" - Apocynum cannabinum, "Indian hemp".
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rope, accession number 1-230631a,b, described as Reddish brown color. 3-ply Z-doubled of cords that are each 2-ply Z-doubled of still smaller 2-ply S-doubled, Z-spun plies. Native name and meaning: "dol'o" - burial rope ("kh'ali" - string for nets, etc.); "kh'ebi" - Apocynum cannabinum, "Indian hemp".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rope, accession number 1-230631a,b, described as Reddish brown color. 3-ply Z-doubled of cords that are each 2-ply Z-doubled of still smaller 2-ply S-doubled, Z-spun plies. Native name and meaning: "dol'o" - burial rope ("kh'ali" - string for nets, etc.); "kh'ebi" - Apocynum cannabinum, "Indian hemp".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rope, accession number 1-230631a,b, described as Reddish brown color. 3-ply Z-doubled of cords that are each 2-ply Z-doubled of still smaller 2-ply S-doubled, Z-spun plies. Native name and meaning: "dol'o" - burial rope ("kh'ali" - string for nets, etc.); "kh'ebi" - Apocynum cannabinum, "Indian hemp".

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