Wedge

Museum number:
1-1154
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010001154
Alternate number:
3154 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Elk antler, polished by usage, curved to ca. 75 degrees. Illustrated in American Archaeology and Ethnology Volume 1 Number 1, Life and Culture of the Hupa, plate one figure 7.
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
Taxon:
Cervus canadensis
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
December 7, 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 25 centimeters and width 5.9 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Wedge, accession number 1-1154, described as Elk antler, polished by usage, curved to ca. 75 degrees. Illustrated in American Archaeology and Ethnology Volume 1 Number 1, Life and Culture of the Hupa, plate one figure 7.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Wedge, accession number 1-1154, described as Elk antler, polished by usage, curved to ca. 75 degrees. Illustrated in American Archaeology and Ethnology Volume 1 Number 1, Life and Culture of the Hupa, plate one figure 7.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Wedge, accession number 1-1154, described as Elk antler, polished by usage, curved to ca. 75 degrees. Illustrated in American Archaeology and Ethnology Volume 1 Number 1, Life and Culture of the Hupa, plate one figure 7.

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