Human remains

Museum number:

12-79(0)

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21120079@280@29

Alternate number:

12-79 (burial number)

Accession number:

Acc.78

Description:

Cranium of a middle adult (35 year old) female.

Donor:

A. Moore, A. W. Crawford, Darius Ogden Mills, E. W. Putnam, F. H. Payne, F. S. Sutton, James Farnham Cunningham, John J. Rivers, John W. Stillman, Miss Ryder, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Robert Gunther, Storey, and W. G. Hay

Collection place:

CA-SCr-NL-4, Felton, Santa Cruz County

Collector:

James Farnham Cunningham

Collection date:

1880

Object type:

archaeology

Object class:

Human remains

Accession date:

April 2, 1903

Department:

Human remains

Comment:

NAGPRA description: Cranium [ditto] Original ledger comments: Skulls 67-86, uncatalogued, mostly unmarked, with loose labels, were sent A. Hrdlicka for study in 1901. Returned in 1903, they were catalogued in 1904. On 1905, when the Hrdlicka report was in press, it was discovered, from his describing 2 Redding skulls and only 1 from Humboldt, that an error had ocurred. Remeasurement of the series revealed three Museum identifications different from Hrdlicka's. One of these was proved an obvious error by the original number 6 on the specimen. As to two others, 81 and 82, there is some doubt, the former being given by Hrdlicka as from Sather, the latter from Redding. As there is no second Redding skull, and as 81 looks as if washed by sand in the surf, the museum identifications have been allowed to stand, though they cannot be regarded as positive. The error as to Redding was no doubt caused by a duplicate of the Redding label, no. 78, which was used instead of the Sandspit-Humboldt label. ALK 12/24/05

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