Wooden. Muni = skewer. Found in Feb. 1909, inside of 1-11943.
Donor:
Edward Sapir, Pliny Earle Goddard, and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Yuki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Hairpins (hair accessories) and Hairpins (pins)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
For fastening headdress.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 28 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p.36: muni = skewer same name applied to the Chinese [chamise, a bush? Lawrence E. Dawson] from which the skewer is made." "Found in Feb. 1909, inside of 1-11943, overlooked when acc. 291, 294 were catalogued.