Spoon

Museum number:
1-1731
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
315 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.40 and Acc.86
Description:
Animal head at apex. Lengthwise striping design on back. Design: angle and forking pattern (swastika-like) and dots. Hourglass in center.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903 and April 28, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 20.3 centimeters and width 11.6 centimeters
Comment:
References: Similar photo: BAE B.78 plate 68.
Loans:
S1956-1957 #3: Education Department (UC Berkeley)/Patricia Hughes (July 17, 1956–April 1, 1957) and S1971-1972 #13: California State University, Sacramento (August 16, 1971–September 9, 1971)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-1731, described as Animal head at apex. Lengthwise striping design on back. Design: angle and forking pattern (swastika-like) and dots. Hourglass in center.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-1731, described as Animal head at apex. Lengthwise striping design on back. Design: angle and forking pattern (swastika-like) and dots. Hourglass in center.

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