Necklace made with haliotis ornaments and glass beads. Eight Keystone shaped pieces of abalone shell, suspended from a row of blue and a row of white glass beads.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Sierra foothills, Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Taxon:
Haliotis
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Necklaces
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 24 inches
Comment:
Tag reads "Miwok Chieftain's necklace
Loans:
S1964-1965 #3: Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (July 13, 1964–October 19, 1964)