Bird bone whistle, with asphaltum stop and asphaltum at end
Donor:
Nels C. Nelson
Collection place:
CA-SMa-4 (San Mateo Shellmound), San Mateo, San Mateo County
Collector:
Nels C. Nelson
Collection date:
January 1911
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Whistles
Accession date:
1911
Context of use:
Burial.
Department:
Associated funerary objects
Comment:
(cont'd from provenience) ...street corner was used as the point of origin for coordinate and absiccia. The streets, however, do not run truly north-south and east-west so that the figures given are not absolutely correct in reference to the cardinal directions.
Loans:
S2001-2002 #15: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (January 23, 2002–January 23, 2003)