Stone

Museum number:
1-10887
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010887
Alternate number:
890 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.264, Acc.265, and Acc.266
Description:
Small irregular stone.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Drum Valley, Fresno County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tulare; Drum Valley
Culture or time period:
Yawdanchi and Yokuts
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
February 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Stone with which clay was pounded upon cat. no. 10874 as a base block. A lump of clay is first flattened and the edge upturned in this manner, and the coiling is done upon this as a base.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: See 1-10874. 10874-10879, 10882-10892 and 10894-10898 constitute the materials, implements, and the models of pottery..to illustrate the process of making coiled pottery vessels and pottery pipes.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stone, accession number 1-10887, described as Small irregular stone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stone, accession number 1-10887, described as Small irregular stone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stone, accession number 1-10887, described as Small irregular stone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stone, accession number 1-10887, described as Small irregular stone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stone, accession number 1-10887, described as Small irregular stone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stone, accession number 1-10887, described as Small irregular stone.

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