Water breaker
- Museum number:
- 1-12209
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010012209
- Alternate number:
- 1266 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.291 and Acc.294
- Description:
- Cedar boughs.
- Donor:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection place:
- Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Mendocino; Round Valley
- Culture or time period:
- Konkow (Northwestern Maidu)
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection date:
- July 1907
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1907
- Context of use:
- Used to break the fall of water in leaching acorn meal.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Comment:
- Samuel A. Barrett field notes, p. 90: "hutoni cedar boughs used to break fall of water in leaching acorn meal.
- Legacy documentation:
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