Awl

Museum number:
1-10125
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010125
Alternate number:
242 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
With a sharp point. This is made from the proximal end of posterior cannon bone (fused metatarsal) of Odocoileus (deer). Split from foreleg of deer and polished off.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Avery, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Avery
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Taxon:
Odocoileus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Awls
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used in sewing and weaving.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "tculla" - bone awl. Photo: 15-4814. Published: Bureau of American Ethnology Bull. 78, fig. 67; Milw. Pub. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 39.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #59: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/George A. Pettitt (February 26, 1965–February 26, 1965), S1967-1968 #8: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Betty Holtzman (July 24, 1967–September 1, 1967), S1968-1969 #106: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Glynn Llywelyn Isaac (April 14, 1969–May 7, 1969), S1976-1977 #38: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (January 13, 1977–May 23, 1977), and S1978-1979 #39: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Colleen Beck (January 17, 1979–March 31, 1979)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-10125, described as With a sharp point. This is made from the proximal end of posterior cannon bone (fused metatarsal) of Odocoileus (deer). Split from foreleg of deer and polished off.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-10125, described as With a sharp point. This is made from the proximal end of posterior cannon bone (fused metatarsal) of Odocoileus (deer). Split from foreleg of deer and polished off.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-10125, described as With a sharp point. This is made from the proximal end of posterior cannon bone (fused metatarsal) of Odocoileus (deer). Split from foreleg of deer and polished off.

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