Awl

Museum number:
1-2694
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
544 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.89
Description:
Made of bone. Ulna, with pointed distal end.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Little Lake quarters, Round Valley, Mendocino County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Little Lake quarters
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
March 1902
Materials:
Bone (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Awls
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
Used in basket making.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 14 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4826
Loans:
S1964-1965 #59: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/George A. Pettitt (February 26, 1965–February 26, 1965), S1967-1968 #8: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Betty Holtzman (July 24, 1967–September 1, 1967), S1968-1969 #106: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Glynn Llywelyn Isaac (April 14, 1969–May 7, 1969), S1976-1977 #38: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (January 13, 1977–May 23, 1977), S1978-1979 #39: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Colleen Beck (January 17, 1979–March 31, 1979), and S1983-1984 #15: Lawrence E. Dawson/Lawrence E. Dawson (September 22, 1983–September 26, 1983)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-2694, described as Made of bone. Ulna, with pointed distal end.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-2694, described as Made of bone. Ulna, with pointed distal end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-2694, described as Made of bone. Ulna, with pointed distal end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-2694, described as Made of bone. Ulna, with pointed distal end.

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