Blanket

Museum number:

1-866

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Alternate number:

2866 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.19

Description:

Deer skin blanket, painted.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Hoopa Valley, Humboldt County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Humboldt; Hoopa Valley

Culture or time period:

Hupa

Collector:

Philip Mills Jones

Collection date:

July 28, 1901

Taxon:

Odocoileus

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Blankets (coverings)

Function:

5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies

Accession date:

December 7, 1901

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Loans:

S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966) and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)

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