Whetstone and pouch
- Museum number:
- 2-5450a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21025450a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 3441 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.13
- Description:
- (a) whetstone in (b) buckskin pouch. Fringed. Beaded strips in green/pink/blue/yellow.
- Donor:
- John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Canada; Blackfoot Reservation
- Culture or time period:
- Blackfoot of Canada
- Collector:
- J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
- Collection date:
- August 27, 1901
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Whetstones
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- August 1901
- Context of use:
- Used to sharpen metal.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 14 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-