Pestle

Museum number:
1-10717
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010717
Alternate number:
703 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.264, Acc.265, and Acc.266
Description:
Stone, cylindrical pestle. Large, roughly made.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Santa Rosa Rancheria, Kings County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kings; Santa Rosa Rancheria
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
February 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ground stone and Pestles
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
For the first grinding of grass (?) (grain?). 10716-18 were all used with 10715. Used by Mary Lupuki.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 36.7 centimeters and width 10.6 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: "Polwoi".
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-10717, described as Stone, cylindrical pestle. Large, roughly made.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-10717, described as Stone, cylindrical pestle. Large, roughly made.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-10717, described as Stone, cylindrical pestle. Large, roughly made.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-10717, described as Stone, cylindrical pestle. Large, roughly made.

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