Magnesite. (See 1-13976 - fragment of magnesite used for cylindrical beads) Value about fifty cents.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lake County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Lake
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Charles P. Wilcomb
Collection date:
1898-1902
Materials:
Magnesite
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects)
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photo: Neg. 15-6090 [crossed out] yes (Note: see 1-2612 Pomo)
Loans:
S1962-1963 #42: American Indian Film Project/David Wayne Peri (February 20, 1963–July 12, 1967) and S2005-2006 #5: California Indian Museum and Cultural Center (October 7, 2005–March 15, 2006)