Slabs

Museum number:
1-10501
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010501
Alternate number:
583 (original number) and No-TEMP288 (attributed PAHMA number)
Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
Cedar bark house slabs.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Rail Road Flat, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
Grinding House of Emma.
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Maker or artist:
Emma [Miwok]
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used in house and building construction. These house slabs were obtained from the grinding house of a woman named Emma.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
These are likely items found under No-TEMP288 although those boards are labeled Yokuts, not Miwok.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Slabs, accession number 1-10501, described as Cedar bark house slabs.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Slabs, accession number 1-10501, described as Cedar bark house slabs.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Slabs, accession number 1-10501, described as Cedar bark house slabs.

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