Knife

Museum number:
1-1539
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010001539
Alternate number:
123 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.17 and Acc.86
Description:
Stone, blue/green chert, bifacially flaked; attached to wood handle with cordage and mastic. Mastic cracked.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Knives (stone tools)
Function:
1.9 Multiple Utility
Accession date:
1903 and November 20, 1901
Context of use:
Salmon-scaling knife.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 5.1 centimeters and length 18.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4839.
Loans:
S1956-1957 #3: Education Department (UC Berkeley)/Patricia Hughes (July 17, 1956–April 1, 1957), S1961-1962 #57: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 3, 1962–April 3, 1962), S1971-1972 #23: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (September 23, 1971–May 31, 1973), and S1975-1976 #32: California Academy of Sciences/Wilbur ("Bill") Irving Follett, Jr. (November 12, 1975–December 11, 1975)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 1-1539, described as Stone, blue/green chert, bifacially flaked; attached to wood handle with cordage and mastic. Mastic cracked.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 1-1539, described as Stone, blue/green chert, bifacially flaked; attached to wood handle with cordage and mastic. Mastic cracked.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 1-1539, described as Stone, blue/green chert, bifacially flaked; attached to wood handle with cordage and mastic. Mastic cracked.

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