Shuttle

Museum number:
1-9485
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010009485
Alternate number:
53 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.233
Description:
Netting shuttle, wood, handcarved with oval opening and slot at each end. Polished from use.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shuttles (textile fabricating tools)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 1.4 centimeters and length 41.7 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shuttle, accession number 1-9485, described as Netting shuttle, wood, handcarved with oval opening and slot at each end. Polished from use.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shuttle, accession number 1-9485, described as Netting shuttle, wood, handcarved with oval opening and slot at each end. Polished from use.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shuttle, accession number 1-9485, described as Netting shuttle, wood, handcarved with oval opening and slot at each end. Polished from use.

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