Pestle
- Museum number:
- 1-221763
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010221763
- Alternate number:
- 1779 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.1180
- Description:
- Roller.
- Donor:
- James A. Barr and Mrs. James A. Barr
- Collection place:
- CA-SJo-83, San Joaquin County, California
- Collector:
- James A. Barr
- Collection date:
- September 9, 1900
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Ground stone and Pestles
- Accession date:
- 1956
- Department:
- Unassociated funerary objects
- Dimensions:
- length 4.25 inches
- Comment:
- Description from 1-221758: "...Skeleton of young person probably 12 or 14 yrs. of age. Lying east and west, head to west. On back stretched out. Skeleton in hard clay about 5" deep with two feet of black sandy loam and ashes on top. Bone much decayed. Two broken flat rocks [1-221759-60] found with steatite dish. Pestle [761-63 ?] near head, lying N.W. by S.E., head of pestle pointing N.W. and two inches from head of skeleton. Spear head [764] above skull four inches. Broken curve [765] under lower jaw. Small arrow point [766] with curve. Seven bone whistles in good condition, three broken ones, three fragments and four slender tubes [767-77] together on right side of skeleton between arm and body. One of the tubes was in a whistle as if for a mouth piece. Wampum [779] around neck and along arms. Troweled by J.A. Barr." Description: "...See 1774.
- Legacy documentation:
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