Dish

Museum number:
1-11826
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.286
Description:
Steatite, oval dish. Used for cooking, and perhaps for catching drippings/grease.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Murek, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Murek
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
May 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dishes (vessels for food)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Cooking utensil (for catching drippings?).
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 10.2 centimeters, width 8.2 centimeters, and height 2.8 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-11826, described as Steatite, oval dish. Used for cooking, and perhaps for catching drippings/grease.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-11826, described as Steatite, oval dish. Used for cooking, and perhaps for catching drippings/grease.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-11826, described as Steatite, oval dish. Used for cooking, and perhaps for catching drippings/grease.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 1-11826, described as Steatite, oval dish. Used for cooking, and perhaps for catching drippings/grease.

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