Dish

Museum number:
1-21670
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.545
Description:
Small oval soapstone dish.
Donor:
Edward W. Gifford and University Appropriation
Collection place:
North Fork, Madera County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Madera; North Fork
Culture or time period:
Western Mono
Collector:
Edward W. Gifford
Collection date:
August 1918
Materials:
Soapstone (metamorphic rock)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dishes (vessels for food)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1918
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 3.25 inches, height 2.25 inches, and length 4.5 inches
Comment:
Published: AAE 31 #2, pl 15 b. "Two steatite quarries were worked for cooking stones and material for dishes. One, on Table mountain, was called Momitsenauka. The second, called Tiupogiwe, was along a small creek near Fish Creek mountain, between the stage road and the San Joaquin river, to the right of the road to Auberry.... Surface pieces were used, also pieces split off of outcrops by striking with another stone. "A lump selected for a dish was smoothed with a stone, the outline of the rim of the vessel marked with charcoal, and hollowed by pecking with a piece of flint (?) or white quartz (didusiaup). After a dish was made it was cooked overnight in a fire to harden it. Steatite was called bakoya, the dishes made therefrom, witu. Steatite (talc) was used in making acorn calyx dice. "Pottery, made by the more southerly Mono, was not in evidence among those of Northfork. Probably steatite served the purpose. However, the Field Museum of Natural History possesses a 'clay pot' for red paint grinding and mixing," collected by Dr. J. W. Hudson from Northfork Mono at Hooker's cove, Madera county, in 1901. It may have been made south of the San Joaquin river.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Dish, accession number 1-21670, described as Small oval soapstone dish.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Dish, accession number 1-21670, described as Small oval soapstone dish.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Dish, accession number 1-21670, described as Small oval soapstone dish.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Dish, accession number 1-21670, described as Small oval soapstone dish.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-21670, described as Small oval soapstone dish.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-21670, described as Small oval soapstone dish.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-21670, described as Small oval soapstone dish.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-21670, described as Small oval soapstone dish.
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