Tapper

Museum number:
1-12210
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Alternate number:
1267 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Made of deer bone.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Konkow (Northwestern Maidu)
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Taxon:
Odocoileus
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used as a tapper for the sifting basket in making acorn meal.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett field notes, p. 90: "wolkokum" used to tap sifting basket.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966) and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tapper, accession number 1-12210, described as Made of deer bone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tapper, accession number 1-12210, described as Made of deer bone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tapper, accession number 1-12210, described as Made of deer bone.

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