Knife

Museum number:
1-1326
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010001326
Alternate number:
3570 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Stone, chert, bifacially flaked; hafted to wood handle with twine wrapping, covered with mastic.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
F. E. Gist and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Knives (stone tools)
Function:
1.9 Multiple Utility
Accession date:
December 7, 1901
Context of use:
Man's knife (probably for salmon-scaling).
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 16.2 centimeters and width 2.7 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4839.
Loans:
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 1-1326, described as Stone, chert, bifacially flaked; hafted to wood handle with twine wrapping, covered with mastic.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 1-1326, described as Stone, chert, bifacially flaked; hafted to wood handle with twine wrapping, covered with mastic.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 1-1326, described as Stone, chert, bifacially flaked; hafted to wood handle with twine wrapping, covered with mastic.

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