Rope

Museum number:
1-9164
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.198
Description:
Long eagle-down rope.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Friant (Pollasky), Fresno County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Fresno; Pollasky
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Taxon:
Accipitridae
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ropework (genre by technique) and Ropework (visual works)
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Worn around the body by men. Women sometimes wear it on the head. Nos. 9148-9168 form a typical Yokuts dancing outfit owned and kept together by a man named Taucha.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rope, accession number 1-9164, described as Long eagle-down rope.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rope, accession number 1-9164, described as Long eagle-down rope.

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