Leather hand guard

Museum number:
1-19591c
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm2101019591c
Accession number:
Acc.477D
Description:
Leather pad to cover the ball of hand during flint-knapping.
Donor:
Ishi
Collection place:
San Francisco County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Francisco; San Francisco
Culture or time period:
Yana
Maker or artist:
Ishi
Collector:
Ishi
Collection date:
April 1915
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1915
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Published: AAE XIII 3, pl. 27, fig. 4
Loans:
S1961-1962 #31: University Relations (UC Berkeley) (December 5, 1961–December 6, 1961)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Leather hand guard, accession number 1-19591c, described as Leather pad to cover the ball of hand during flint-knapping.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Leather hand guard, accession number 1-19591c, described as Leather pad to cover the ball of hand during flint-knapping.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Leather hand guard, accession number 1-19591c, described as Leather pad to cover the ball of hand during flint-knapping.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Leather hand guard, accession number 1-19591c, described as Leather pad to cover the ball of hand during flint-knapping.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Leather hand guard, accession number 1-19591c, described as Leather pad to cover the ball of hand during flint-knapping.

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