Awl

Museum number:
1-10838
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010838
Alternate number:
859 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.264, Acc.265, and Acc.266
Description:
Part of the leg bone of a deer, partially worked down to make bone awl.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Drum Valley, Fresno County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Mitcahai 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 14 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-10838, described as Part of the leg bone of a deer, partially worked down to make bone awl.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-10838, described as Part of the leg bone of a deer, partially worked down to make bone awl.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-10838, described as Part of the leg bone of a deer, partially worked down to make bone awl.

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