Awl

Museum number:
1-10840
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010840
Alternate number:
846 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.264, Acc.265, and Acc.266
Description:
Small blunt point awl. Made from distal end of posterior cannon bone (fused metatarsals) of Odocoileus (deer).
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
San Joaquin Valley, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Michahay and Yokuts
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
February 1907
Taxon:
Odocoileus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Awls
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 6.6 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: "bawuk". Photo: 15-4821.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-10840, described as Small blunt point awl. Made from distal end of posterior cannon bone (fused metatarsals) of Odocoileus (deer).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-10840, described as Small blunt point awl. Made from distal end of posterior cannon bone (fused metatarsals) of Odocoileus (deer).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-10840, described as Small blunt point awl. Made from distal end of posterior cannon bone (fused metatarsals) of Odocoileus (deer).

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