Mesh measure

Museum number:
1-1078
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010001078
Alternate number:
3078 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Made of elk antler, rectangular; constricted middle; two incised bands near center, one dot near each end.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 3, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mesh measures
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Accession date:
December 7, 1901
Context of use:
Net mesh measure
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 3.6 centimeters and length 9.6 centimeters
Comment:
Published: "AAE Vol I, pl. 14, fig 4
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966), S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965), and S1975-1976 #43: California Academy of Sciences (December 16, 1975–March 23, 1978)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mesh measure, accession number 1-1078, described as Made of elk antler, rectangular; constricted middle; two incised bands near center, one dot near each end.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mesh measure, accession number 1-1078, described as Made of elk antler, rectangular; constricted middle; two incised bands near center, one dot near each end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mesh measure, accession number 1-1078, described as Made of elk antler, rectangular; constricted middle; two incised bands near center, one dot near each end.

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