Whistle

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
1-14945
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010014945
Alternate number:
X (burial number)
Accession number:
Acc.381
Description:
Bone; set with beads around side vent, neat perforations at one end. "Nos. 14944-50 ... These specimens, apparently made from human femurs were originally wound with some sort of string, the impressions of this being very distinct in the asphaltum at the time of the find." Gifford Bone Type FF1a. Mammal bone.
Donor:
Nels C. Nelson
Collection place:
CA-Mrn-315 (San Rafael Shellmound), San Rafael, Marin County
Verbatim coll. place:
Burial X
Collector:
Nels C. Nelson
Collection date:
January 1910
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Whistles
Accession date:
1910
Context of use:
Burial.
Department:
Associated funerary objects
Dimensions:
length 10.5 inches
Comment:
Published: AR 3;2 Fig FF1a, p. 229. "Perhaps from Mrn-35", fide Gary Richards, 1995.
Loans:
S2001-2002 #15: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (January 23, 2002–January 23, 2003)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-14945, described as Bone; set with beads around side vent, neat perforations at one end. "Nos. 14944-50 ... These specimens, apparently made from human femurs were originally wound with some sort of string, the impressions of this being very distinct in the asphaltum at the time of the find." Gifford Bone Type FF1a. Mammal bone. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-14945, described as Bone; set with beads around side vent, neat perforations at one end. "Nos. 14944-50 ... These specimens, apparently made from human femurs were originally wound with some sort of string, the impressions of this being very distinct in the asphaltum at the time of the find." Gifford Bone Type FF1a. Mammal bone. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-14945, described as Bone; set with beads around side vent, neat perforations at one end. "Nos. 14944-50 ... These specimens, apparently made from human femurs were originally wound with some sort of string, the impressions of this being very distinct in the asphaltum at the time of the find." Gifford Bone Type FF1a. Mammal bone. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.

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