Shell

Museum number:
1-2393
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010002393
Alternate number:
27 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.87
Description:
Raw material, abalone shell fragment; spoon-shaped, pin-sized hole in center of bowl; length 9.5 cm. x 6.0 cm.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Upper Lake, Lake County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Lake; Upper Lake
Culture or time period:
Eastern Pomo
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shell samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-2393, described as Raw material, abalone shell fragment; spoon-shaped, pin-sized hole in center of bowl; length 9.5 cm. x 6.0 cm.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-2393, described as Raw material, abalone shell fragment; spoon-shaped, pin-sized hole in center of bowl; length 9.5 cm. x 6.0 cm.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-2393, described as Raw material, abalone shell fragment; spoon-shaped, pin-sized hole in center of bowl; length 9.5 cm. x 6.0 cm.

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