Skin

Museum number:
1-42830
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010042830
Alternate number:
1651 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.704
Description:
Weasel, head stuffed with grass, red feathers between teeth. 42830 to 42834 are all painted or dusted with powdered red paint, as in the whole inside of the bird skin wrapping 42829.
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:
Mustela
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
1936
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skin, accession number 1-42830, described as Weasel, head stuffed with grass, red feathers between teeth. 42830 to 42834 are all painted or dusted with powdered red paint, as in the whole inside of the bird skin wrapping 42829.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skin, accession number 1-42830, described as Weasel, head stuffed with grass, red feathers between teeth. 42830 to 42834 are all painted or dusted with powdered red paint, as in the whole inside of the bird skin wrapping 42829.

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