Pick head
- Museum number:
- 1-235212
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010235212
- Alternate number:
- 428 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.1408
- Description:
- Pick head (railroad pick). Made of wrought steel, 2 pieces forged together.
- Donor:
- American Indian Film Project
- Collection place:
- Cache Creek, Lake county, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Lake County; Cache Creek
- Culture or time period:
- Pomo
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1961
- Context of use:
- Found in association with magnesite nodules. Assumed to have been used in mining magnesite.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 51.5 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-