Pounder
- Museum number:
- 2-5299
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020005299
- Alternate number:
- 3288 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.13
- Description:
- Pounder, made of stone in rawhide; hafted on hide covered wood handle. Sinew sewn.
- 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:
- Philip Mills Jones
- Collection date:
- August 27, 1901
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- August 1901
- Context of use:
- Meat pounder. Used to pound dried meat (to make pemmican). "Owned by squaws" (P.M. Jones notebooks).
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 48.5 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1962-1963 #8: Four Winds Club, Oakland YWCA (September 13, 1962–September 17, 1962), S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966), and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)
- Legacy documentation:
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