Case

Museum number:
1-1972
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010001972
Alternate number:
556 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.67, Acc.69, and Acc.86
Description:
Carrying. Flat, rectangular. Bundles of brush lashed together lengthwise; held rigid by twine and lashed to sticks on outside; sticks with dentate carvings on one side (one broken); length of twine attached to one stick.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
1903, January 15, 1903, and July 15, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 17 centimeters and length 56 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Case, accession number 1-1972, described as Carrying. Flat, rectangular. Bundles of brush lashed together lengthwise; held rigid by twine and lashed to sticks on outside; sticks with dentate carvings on one side (one broken); length of twine attached to one stick.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Case, accession number 1-1972, described as Carrying. Flat, rectangular. Bundles of brush lashed together lengthwise; held rigid by twine and lashed to sticks on outside; sticks with dentate carvings on one side (one broken); length of twine attached to one stick.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Case, accession number 1-1972, described as Carrying. Flat, rectangular. Bundles of brush lashed together lengthwise; held rigid by twine and lashed to sticks on outside; sticks with dentate carvings on one side (one broken); length of twine attached to one stick.

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