Head dart

Museum number:

1-1523

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Alternate number:

107 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.17 and Acc.86

Description:

Small.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Northwestern California

Verbatim coll. place:

California

Culture or time period:

Hupa

Collector:

Alfred L. Kroeber

Collection date:

1901

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies

Accession date:

1903 and November 20, 1901

Context of use:

Worn on the head in the jumping dance.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Photo: "15-11544" Published: "U.C. Publ. AAE 35, Pl 3d

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