Basket awl. Made of bone. Distal end sharpened. Curved.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Charles P. Wilcomb
Collection date:
1898-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Awls
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 19.2 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4826
Loans:
S1964-1965 #59: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/George A. Pettitt (February 26, 1965–February 26, 1965), S1967-1968 #8: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Betty Holtzman (July 24, 1967–September 1, 1967), S1968-1969 #106: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Glynn Llywelyn Isaac (April 14, 1969–May 7, 1969), and S1976-1977 #38: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (January 13, 1977–May 23, 1977)