Worked antler

Museum number:
1-1843
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
427 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.67, Acc.69, and Acc.86
Description:
Antler, elk, section, cracked. Both ends chamfered; curved; carved concave surface. Possibly the first stage of making a wedge.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Antler (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1903, January 15, 1903, and July 15, 1902
Context of use:
Possibly the first stage of making a wedge.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 21.5 centimeters and diameter 6.4 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Worked antler, accession number 1-1843, described as Antler, elk, section, cracked. Both ends chamfered; curved; carved concave surface. Possibly the first stage of making a wedge.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Worked antler, accession number 1-1843, described as Antler, elk, section, cracked. Both ends chamfered; curved; carved concave surface. Possibly the first stage of making a wedge.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Worked antler, accession number 1-1843, described as Antler, elk, section, cracked. Both ends chamfered; curved; carved concave surface. Possibly the first stage of making a wedge.

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