Pestle

Museum number:
1-14063
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Alternate number:
212 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.334
Description:
Small and very smooth, dark stone.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tule River, Tulare County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tulare; Tule River
Culture or time period:
Western Mono
Collector:
Charles P. Wilcomb
Collection date:
1898-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ground stone and Pestles
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
Used in pounding medicine.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-14063, described as Small and very smooth, dark stone.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-14063, described as Small and very smooth, dark stone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-14063, described as Small and very smooth, dark stone.

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