Pestle

Museum number:
1-11919
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1051 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Very small. (Probably the broken top of a big one).
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Yuki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ground stone and Pestles
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used to crack bones for marrow and as plaything for girls.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 21: kolum small pestle (probably broken top of big one.)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-11919, described as Very small. (Probably the broken top of a big one).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-11919, described as Very small. (Probably the broken top of a big one).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-11919, described as Very small. (Probably the broken top of a big one).

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