Pestle

Museum number:
1-11676
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Accession number:
Acc.284
Description:
Made of stone. Cylindrical, ringed (at 18 cm from distal end); tapered to blunt point at proximal end. Ground stone.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Weitchpec Frank
Collection date:
May 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ground stone and Pestles
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 65.7 centimeters and diameter 8.6 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-11676, described as Made of stone. Cylindrical, ringed (at 18 cm from distal end); tapered to blunt point at proximal end. Ground stone.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-11676, described as Made of stone. Cylindrical, ringed (at 18 cm from distal end); tapered to blunt point at proximal end. Ground stone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-11676, described as Made of stone. Cylindrical, ringed (at 18 cm from distal end); tapered to blunt point at proximal end. Ground stone.

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