Dish

Museum number:
1-9323
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
197 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.225
Description:
Stone, kidney shaped, shallow. Carved steatite. Cooking utensil, possibly for catching drippings/oil.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
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:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Cooking utensil (for catching drippings?)
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 21.5 centimeters, length 44.3 centimeters, and height 7.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-9323, described as Stone, kidney shaped, shallow. Carved steatite. Cooking utensil, possibly for catching drippings/oil.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-9323, described as Stone, kidney shaped, shallow. Carved steatite. Cooking utensil, possibly for catching drippings/oil.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-9323, described as Stone, kidney shaped, shallow. Carved steatite. Cooking utensil, possibly for catching drippings/oil.

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