Shuttle

Museum number:
1-1929
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010001929
Alternate number:
513 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.67, Acc.69, and Acc.86
Description:
Netting shuttle, elk antler (fide L. E. Dawson, 11/1983), oval opening and slot at each end, with string, double twisted strand of vegetable fiber cord.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shuttles (textile fabricating tools)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1903, January 15, 1903, and July 15, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 31.2 centimeters and diameter 0.6 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-8342.
Loans:
S1954-1955 #5: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (June 29, 1955–July 6, 1955), S1980-1981 #27: Hoopa Tribal Museum (January 26, 1981–July 8, 1981), and S1983-1984 #32: Hoopa Tribal Museum (December 9, 1983–March 2, 1984)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shuttle, accession number 1-1929, described as Netting shuttle, elk antler (fide L. E. Dawson, 11/1983), oval opening and slot at each end, with string, double twisted strand of vegetable fiber cord.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shuttle, accession number 1-1929, described as Netting shuttle, elk antler (fide L. E. Dawson, 11/1983), oval opening and slot at each end, with string, double twisted strand of vegetable fiber cord.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shuttle, accession number 1-1929, described as Netting shuttle, elk antler (fide L. E. Dawson, 11/1983), oval opening and slot at each end, with string, double twisted strand of vegetable fiber cord.

Tools