Shuttle

Museum number:
1-9486
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010009486
Alternate number:
54 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.233
Description:
Netting shuttle, wood, handcarved with oval opening and slot at each end. One "tong" broken and indigenously repaired with fiber; with string of two stranded vegetable fiber.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shuttles (textile fabricating tools)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 43.1 centimeters and diameter 1.3 centimeters
Loans:
S1964-1965 #32: Highlands Elementary School/Zelda Bellichi (November 11, 1964–November 30, 1964), S1964-1965 #69: Susan Mandelbaum (March 9, 1965–March 11, 1965), and S1983-1984 #32: Hoopa Tribal Museum (December 9, 1983–March 2, 1984)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shuttle, accession number 1-9486, described as Netting shuttle, wood, handcarved with oval opening and slot at each end. One "tong" broken and indigenously repaired with fiber; with string of two stranded vegetable fiber.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shuttle, accession number 1-9486, described as Netting shuttle, wood, handcarved with oval opening and slot at each end. One "tong" broken and indigenously repaired with fiber; with string of two stranded vegetable fiber.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shuttle, accession number 1-9486, described as Netting shuttle, wood, handcarved with oval opening and slot at each end. One "tong" broken and indigenously repaired with fiber; with string of two stranded vegetable fiber.

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