Small gourd in net of string for carrying. The stopper is also of string. The string is made from fiber of a variety of native beans called "white beans.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Needles, San Bernardino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Bernardino; Needles
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
February 1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Containers (receptacles)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
circumference 36 centimeters and height 16 centimeters
Loans:
S1973-1974 #25: California State University, Chico (October 18, 1973–July 3, 1975) and S1981-1982 #57: Department of Anthropology (CSU Chico) (April 5, 1982–February 24, 1983)