Beads

Museum number:
1-71947
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Clamshell disk beads. Magnesite cylinder.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Materials:
Magnesite
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects)
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 38 inches
Loans:
S1956-1957 #3: Education Department (UC Berkeley)/Patricia Hughes (July 17, 1956–April 1, 1957) and S1962-1963 #42: American Indian Film Project/David Wayne Peri (February 20, 1963–July 12, 1967)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Beads, accession number 1-71947, described as Clamshell disk beads. Magnesite cylinder.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Beads, accession number 1-71947, described as Clamshell disk beads. Magnesite cylinder.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Beads, accession number 1-71947, described as Clamshell disk beads. Magnesite cylinder.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Beads, accession number 1-71947, described as Clamshell disk beads. Magnesite cylinder.

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