Cooking stones
- Museum number:
- 1-211598a-e
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2101211598a@2de
- Accession number:
- Acc.1272
- Description:
- For acorn mush. Talc-like stones covered with acorn.
- Donor:
- University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Northern Sierras, Northern California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California
- Culture or time period:
- Nisenan
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection date:
- November 1958
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Cooking stones
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1958
- Context of use:
- For acorn mush. Talc-like stones covered with acorn. Talc-like stone does not break on sudden heating and cooking.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Legacy documentation:
-