Louse killer

Museum number:
1-1259
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3259 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Made of bone, rectangular, flat with hole in end; undecorated.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Klamath River area, Northwestern California, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Klamath River area
Culture or time period:
Hupa and Yurok
Collector:
Alexander Brizard and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 9, 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 9.7 centimeters and width 1.2 centimeters
Comment:
End of series of Jones specimens which have been renumbered by subtracting 2,000 from the Jones number.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Louse killer, accession number 1-1259, described as Made of bone, rectangular, flat with hole in end; undecorated.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Louse killer, accession number 1-1259, described as Made of bone, rectangular, flat with hole in end; undecorated.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Louse killer, accession number 1-1259, described as Made of bone, rectangular, flat with hole in end; undecorated.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Louse killer, accession number 1-1259, described as Made of bone, rectangular, flat with hole in end; undecorated.

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