Hook

Museum number:
1-10333
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010333
Alternate number:
554 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
Wooden hook, long and with handle.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Mariposa, Mariposa County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mariposa; Mariposa
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.2 Gathering
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used to draw limbs down to within reach of gatherers of pine cones and other foods. Also used to hook down dead limbs for wood. Such hooks were frequently made twice as long.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
4.8 centimeters and length 148.5 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: ana.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Hook, accession number 1-10333, described as Wooden hook, long and with handle.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hook, accession number 1-10333, described as Wooden hook, long and with handle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hook, accession number 1-10333, described as Wooden hook, long and with handle.

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