Whistle

Museum number:
1-222158
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1473 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1180
Description:
Bone.
Donor:
James A. Barr and Mrs. James A. Barr
Collection place:
CA-SJo-86, San Joaquin County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
Per Barr ledger: Found in mouth with #1469 both with square opening. Sixteen other whistles by side of head, a few inches to right. Three fragments of whistles with the 16. Ten shell ornaments and five etched pieces of what was probably a large ornament found on breast. Two of the ten ornaments are shell effigies or parts of “banjo” gorgets. Pool Mound HH Barr Feb. 2, 1900.
Collector:
H. H. Barr and James A. Barr
Collection date:
February 2, 1900
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Whistles
Accession date:
1956
Context of use:
Part of burial.
Department:
Unassociated funerary objects
Comment:
...and five etched pieces of what was probably a large ornament found on breast [ornaments 173-179]...." Description: "...See #1467
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-222158, described as Bone.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-222158, described as Bone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-222158, described as Bone.

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