Anvil
- Museum number:
- 1-4312
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010004312
- Alternate number:
- 1559 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.135, Acc.136, Acc.137, and Acc.138
- Description:
- Anvil or cobble of stone. Triangular shape with rounded edges. Flat on one side, more convex on other.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Mohave Valley, Mohave County, Arizona
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Southwest
- Culture or time period:
- Mohave
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection date:
- 1904
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Acorn anvils
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- For shaping patterns.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- circumference 28.5 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1961-1962 #73: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 3, 1962–May 3, 1962)
- Legacy documentation:
-