Bone, elongated section of bone, rounded at each end; hole drilled in narrow end; section of bone with hole broken off; geometric incisions on convex side; row of shallow dots on concave side.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Klamath River below Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Klamath River area; Klamath R. below Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.8 Toilet Articles
Accession date:
December 7, 1901
Context of use:
For personal grooming.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 9.6 centimeters and width 1.5 centimeters
Comment:
Published: AAE XIV, 3, pl. 20, fig 15.
Loans:
S1996-1997 #3: Great Valley Museum of Natural History (September 4, 1996–December 17, 1996)