Charmstone

Museum number:
1-14085
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
230 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.334
Description:
Smooth charmstone, highly polished, plummet shaped, light in color.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tulare Lake, Tulare County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tulare; Tulare Lake
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Charles P. Wilcomb
Collection date:
1898-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Charmstones
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
Carried by medicine men.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Loans:
S1971-1972 #53: UC Berkeley Extension/Daphne D. Stern (November 18, 1971–November 18, 1971), S1979-1980 #9: DeAnza College (August 31, 1979–December 17, 1979), and S1982-1983 #16: Merritt College (October 13, 1982–February 28, 1983)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Charmstone, accession number 1-14085, described as Smooth charmstone, highly polished, plummet shaped, light in color.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Charmstone, accession number 1-14085, described as Smooth charmstone, highly polished, plummet shaped, light in color.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Charmstone, accession number 1-14085, described as Smooth charmstone, highly polished, plummet shaped, light in color.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Charmstone, accession number 1-14085, described as Smooth charmstone, highly polished, plummet shaped, light in color.

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