Seed knocker

Museum number:
1-2488
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
122 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.75 and Acc.87
Description:
Seed beater; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is also peeled Hazel. Handle is made of Hazel, covered with Rabbit (?) skin and fastened with skin.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Hupa
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Hazel shoots and Rabbit fur
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.2 Gathering
Accession date:
1903 and February 25, 1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 30 centimeters
Comment:
Published: "AAE, I, Pl 23, fig 2" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 9
Loans:
S1987-1988 #36: Mills College (March 11, 1988–May 23, 1988)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Seed knocker, accession number 1-2488, described as Seed beater; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is also peeled Hazel. Handle is made of Hazel, covered with Rabbit (?) skin and fastened with skin.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Seed knocker, accession number 1-2488, described as Seed beater; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is also peeled Hazel. Handle is made of Hazel, covered with Rabbit (?) skin and fastened with skin.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seed knocker, accession number 1-2488, described as Seed beater; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is also peeled Hazel. Handle is made of Hazel, covered with Rabbit (?) skin and fastened with skin.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seed knocker, accession number 1-2488, described as Seed beater; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is also peeled Hazel. Handle is made of Hazel, covered with Rabbit (?) skin and fastened with skin.

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