Muller and pestle

Museum number:
1-19683
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
13 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.499
Description:
Combined muller and pestle, used also for smoothing the inside of newly made baskets.
Donor:
Edward W. Gifford and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Piute (historical place), Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern; Piute
Culture or time period:
Kawaiisu
Collector:
Edward W. Gifford
Collection date:
December 1915
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ground stone and Pestles
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 8.4 centimeters and length 12.5 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Muller and pestle, accession number 1-19683, described as Combined muller and pestle, used also for smoothing the inside of newly made baskets.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Muller and pestle, accession number 1-19683, described as Combined muller and pestle, used also for smoothing the inside of newly made baskets.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Muller and pestle, accession number 1-19683, described as Combined muller and pestle, used also for smoothing the inside of newly made baskets.

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