Bead

Museum number:
1-10195
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010195
Alternate number:
315 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
Shell bead, long and tubular in form. Worn as nose stick (Barrett and Gifford 1993).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Chicken Ranch, Tuolumne County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tuolumne; Chicken Ranch
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used as a medium of exchange and as an ornament. (Susie) "had had it since she was a small girl. Her father had given her a lot of them.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 0.7 centimeters and length 5.7 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: "pileku". "The Miwok did not, according to Samuel A. Barrett, make their own beads. Beads of this type came from the south (made by the "tcummetoko", or S. people in contrast to the people to the north, the "tammuleko"). Discoidal shell beads "howoku" were made to the north." Photo: 15-5978. Published: Milwaukee Publ. Museum Bull. v. 2, pl. 63.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bead, accession number 1-10195, described as Shell bead, long and tubular in form. Worn as nose stick (Barrett and Gifford 1993).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bead, accession number 1-10195, described as Shell bead, long and tubular in form. Worn as nose stick (Barrett and Gifford 1993).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bead, accession number 1-10195, described as Shell bead, long and tubular in form. Worn as nose stick (Barrett and Gifford 1993).

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