Shovel

Museum number:
2-2808
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Wooden. Painted rust color with 4 black rectangular shaped lines painted on spoon shaped blade; also curved line following contour of blade painted black. 11 black circles painted in line running length-wise down back of blade.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Upper Yukon River, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
; Upper Yukon
Culture or time period:
Northern Athapaskan tribes
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shovels
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Snow shovel
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 59 inches and width 7.375 inches
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shovel, accession number 2-2808, described as Wooden. Painted rust color with 4 black rectangular shaped lines painted on spoon shaped blade; also curved line following contour of blade painted black. 11 black circles painted in line running length-wise down back of blade.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shovel, accession number 2-2808, described as Wooden. Painted rust color with 4 black rectangular shaped lines painted on spoon shaped blade; also curved line following contour of blade painted black. 11 black circles painted in line running length-wise down back of blade.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shovel, accession number 2-2808, described as Wooden. Painted rust color with 4 black rectangular shaped lines painted on spoon shaped blade; also curved line following contour of blade painted black. 11 black circles painted in line running length-wise down back of blade.

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