Whistles

Museum number:
1-13218
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
230 (burial number) and 230 j (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.299
Description:
Whistles or musical devices, fragments of three or four. Made of bird bones of different diameters and lengths; perforations in side fixed with asphalt; some ornamented with disk beads set in asphalt. They lay in order like the "Pans pipes" Found with skeletons No. 230.
Donor:
Nels C. Nelson
Collection place:
CA-CCo-295, Richmond, Contra Costa County
Culture or time period:
Early/Middle Horizon: Patterson facies (ca. 500–200 BC)
Collector:
Nels C. Nelson
Collection date:
1907
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Whistles
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
With burial.
Department:
Associated funerary objects
Comment:
Photo: 15-5018. Published: AAE VII, Pl. 45, fig. 10, 11; A.R. 3:2, Fig. FF2, p. 230.
Loans:
S2001-2002 #15: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (January 23, 2002–January 23, 2003), S2004-2005 #8: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (dates unknown), and S2005-2006 #7: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (November 29, 2005–January 3, 2011)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistles, accession number 1-13218, described as Whistles or musical devices, fragments of three or four. Made of bird bones of different diameters and lengths; perforations in side fixed with asphalt; some ornamented with disk beads set in asphalt. They lay in order like the "Pans pipes" Found with skeletons No. 230.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistles, accession number 1-13218, described as Whistles or musical devices, fragments of three or four. Made of bird bones of different diameters and lengths; perforations in side fixed with asphalt; some ornamented with disk beads set in asphalt. They lay in order like the "Pans pipes" Found with skeletons No. 230.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistles, accession number 1-13218, described as Whistles or musical devices, fragments of three or four. Made of bird bones of different diameters and lengths; perforations in side fixed with asphalt; some ornamented with disk beads set in asphalt. They lay in order like the "Pans pipes" Found with skeletons No. 230.

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