Pan

Museum number:
1-10151
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010151
Alternate number:
270 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
Prospector pan, with handle. A metallic plate is nailed on near the handle, while handle itself has metal edging on 3 sides. The pan is of wood.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Adams Ranch, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Adams Ranch
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Gold pans (prospecting equipment)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used in prospecting for gold. Samuel A. Barrett reports that some Miwok were still using wooden pans of this type in placer mining in 1906.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 9.5 centimeters and diameter 45.5 centimeters
Comment:
Described by Samuel A. Barrett in 1906 as being "old". "Made by Indians after the Mexican fashion" (Samuel A. Barrett field notes).
Loans:
S2008-2009 #1: Jackson Rancheria Band of Miwok Indians (September 4, 2008–December 1, 2011)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Pan, accession number 1-10151, described as Prospector pan, with handle. A metallic plate is nailed on near the handle, while handle itself has metal edging on 3 sides. The pan is of wood.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pan, accession number 1-10151, described as Prospector pan, with handle. A metallic plate is nailed on near the handle, while handle itself has metal edging on 3 sides. The pan is of wood.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pan, accession number 1-10151, described as Prospector pan, with handle. A metallic plate is nailed on near the handle, while handle itself has metal edging on 3 sides. The pan is of wood.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pan, accession number 1-10151, described as Prospector pan, with handle. A metallic plate is nailed on near the handle, while handle itself has metal edging on 3 sides. The pan is of wood.

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