Stone, chert, bifacially flaked; hafted to wood handle with cordage, covered with mastic.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Knives (stone tools)
Function:
1.9 Multiple Utility
Accession date:
1903 and November 20, 1901
Context of use:
Salmon-scaling knife.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 4.4 centimeters and length 17.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4839. Published: AAE I, pl 3, fig 4. BAE B-78 pl. 16.
Loans:
S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1967-1968 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 15, 1968–February 15, 1968), S1971-1972 #23: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (September 23, 1971–May 31, 1973), S1971-1972 #4: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 12, 1971–July 26, 1971), S1973-1974 #13: California Academy of Sciences/Wilbur ("Bill") Irving Follett, Jr. (September 7, 1973–July 30, 1973), and S1973-1974 #44: California Academy of Sciences/Wilbur ("Bill") Irving Follett, Jr. (December 26, 1973–April 5, 1974)