Zoomorph

Museum number:
1-1726
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
310 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.40 and Acc.86
Description:
Figure of lizard, roughly shaped by hand; tan color. Clay. Found in a household and served as a toy or model.
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:
Zoomorphic
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1903 and April 28, 1902
Context of use:
Found in a household and served as a toy or model.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 1.3 centimeters and length 10 centimeters
Comment:
They seemed at least partly baked, but have since been washed with yellow ocher, which would turn red on baking." Published: Anthro Record Vol. 16 #1 Mohave Pottery by Kroeber and Harner p. 29J.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Zoomorph, accession number 1-1726, described as Figure of lizard, roughly shaped by hand; tan color. Clay. Found in a household and served as a toy or model.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Zoomorph, accession number 1-1726, described as Figure of lizard, roughly shaped by hand; tan color. Clay. Found in a household and served as a toy or model.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Zoomorph, accession number 1-1726, described as Figure of lizard, roughly shaped by hand; tan color. Clay. Found in a household and served as a toy or model.

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