Maul

Museum number:
1-1195
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3195 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Stone, conical, mushroom shaped at proximal end. Flat distal end is chipped.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Klamath River below Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Klamath River area; Klamath R. below Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mauls (striking tools)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
December 7, 1901
Context of use:
For driving wedges.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 15.9 centimeters and diameter 9 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4843. Published: AAE. I, pl.3, Fig. 3. See BAE B78, pl 19 (e).
Loans:
S1954-1955 #5: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (June 29, 1955–July 6, 1955), S1961-1962 #52: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (March 13, 1962–March 13, 1962), S1963-1964 #35: Jefferson Elementary School/Barbara Barclay (October 29, 1963–November 5, 1963), S1964-1965 #82: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Shane Griffin (March 26, 1965–April 2, 1965), S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1966-1967 #91: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 13, 1967–April 13, 1967), S1967-1968 #87: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 2, 1968–February 5, 1968), S1970-1971 #149: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (June 25, 1971–July 9, 1971), and S1996-1997 #3: Great Valley Museum of Natural History (September 4, 1996–December 17, 1996)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Maul, accession number 1-1195, described as Stone, conical, mushroom shaped at proximal end. Flat distal end is chipped.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Maul, accession number 1-1195, described as Stone, conical, mushroom shaped at proximal end. Flat distal end is chipped.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Maul, accession number 1-1195, described as Stone, conical, mushroom shaped at proximal end. Flat distal end is chipped.

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