Fish stringer

Museum number:
1-4359
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1606 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.135, Acc.136, Acc.137, and Acc.138
Description:
Slightly curved wooden stick, each end sharply pointed. Bound with string which is composed of three strands each and tightly twisted threads of cotton fiber. The 3 strands are twisted into a cord, bound to the stick with cotton string. Willow.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Mohave Valley, Mohave County, Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1904
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 0.5 centimeters, height 1 centimeters, length 125 centimeters, and length 30.2 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fish stringer, accession number 1-4359, described as Slightly curved wooden stick, each end sharply pointed. Bound with string which is composed of three strands each and tightly twisted threads of cotton fiber. The 3 strands are twisted into a cord, bound to the stick with cotton string. Willow.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fish stringer, accession number 1-4359, described as Slightly curved wooden stick, each end sharply pointed. Bound with string which is composed of three strands each and tightly twisted threads of cotton fiber. The 3 strands are twisted into a cord, bound to the stick with cotton string. Willow.

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