Basal portions of bone whistle, made from deer tibia, surface of bone shows impression of cord in asphalt. Ends cut and filled with asphaltum plugs; one plug shows impression of shell ornaments.
Donor:
Frederic Ward Putnam
Collection place:
CA-SBa-73, Goleta, Santa Barbara County
Collector:
Frederic Ward Putnam
Collection date:
March 19-20, 1908
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Whistles
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
Burial.
Department:
Associated funerary objects
Comment:
Remarks: "...(See Wheeler Survey, p. 235 Fig. 115.)...Many of these pieces belong to the bones.