Bronze PPIE souvenir; central scene with a woman in classical garments, a bear at her side, "Eureka" above; around rim "PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION SAN FRANCISCO 1915." On back initials "JR" are incised. Made from cast bronze.
Donor:
Ishi and Marceline Crane
Collection place:
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), San Francisco, San Francisco County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Francisco; San Francisco
Culture or time period:
Yana
Collector:
Ishi
Collection date:
1915
Materials:
Bronze (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Production date:
1915
Accession date:
1916
Context of use:
Souvenir of Panama Pacific International Exposition; assumed to have belonged to Ishi. Found in 1983 in bag of worked obsidian and glass fragments, 1-19874.
Department:
Nonnative California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 4 centimeters
Loans:
S1984-1985 #44: UC San Francisco Medical Center (May 9, 1985–August 31, 1987)