Rope, quills, and bird skin strips

Museum number:
1-43159
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
2049 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.704
Description:
Apocynum (?) rope, 4-strand, wrapped with quills and bird skin strips.
Donor:
Beverly Blackmer and Francesca Blackmer Wigg
Collection place:
NV-Ch-35 (Humboldt Cave), Churchill County, Nevada
Collector:
Alex D. Krieger and Robert Fleming Heizer
Collection date:
June 1936
Taxon:
Apocynum
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Ropework (genre by technique) and Ropework (visual works)
Accession date:
1936
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rope, quills, and bird skin strips, accession number 1-43159, described as Apocynum (?) rope, 4-strand, wrapped with quills and bird skin strips.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rope, quills, and bird skin strips, accession number 1-43159, described as Apocynum (?) rope, 4-strand, wrapped with quills and bird skin strips.

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