Breech cloth

Museum number:

1-27205

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Alternate number:

2 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.643

Description:

Captain Jack's breech cloth

Donor:

R. W. Hanna

Collection place:

Modoc County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Modoc

Culture or time period:

Modoc

Collector:

Charles Shock, Daniel Ream, and Henry Shock

Collection date:

unknown

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Loincloths

Accession date:

1929

Context of use:

The owner has been the recognized Modoc Chief from the time prior to the coming of the white man.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

width 57 centimeters and length 43 centimeters

Loans:

S1978-1979 #62: Presidio Army Museum (April 23, 1979–March 5, 1980), S1980-1981 #8: Presidio Army Museum (July 31, 1980–January 8, 1985), and S2010-2011 #1: The California Museum (February 1, 2011–November 30, 2014)

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