Dish

Museum number:
1-1632
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
216 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.17 and Acc.86
Description:
Steatite, rectangular dish. Paint pot or possibly a child's toy.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dishes (vessels for food)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits and 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Accession date:
1903 and November 20, 1901
Context of use:
Paint pot (?), or possibly a child's toy.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 1.5 centimeters, length 6.3 centimeters, and width 4.4 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-1632, described as Steatite, rectangular dish. Paint pot or possibly a child's toy.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-1632, described as Steatite, rectangular dish. Paint pot or possibly a child's toy.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-1632, described as Steatite, rectangular dish. Paint pot or possibly a child's toy.

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