Mortar

Museum number:
2-47041
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020047041
Alternate number:
3265 (previous number (Albert Bender’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2403 and Acc.2534
Description:
Frog-shaped with legs folded under; carved grey argellite. "Mortar (?); att. fide Prof. Carole Kaufmann, UC-Santa Cruz Anthropology Department".
Donor:
Albert M. Bender, Lewis K. Napton, Robert Fleming Heizer, University Appropriation, and various collectors
Collection place:
British Columbia, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; British Columbia
Culture or time period:
Haida
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1933
Materials:
Argillite (argellite)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ground stone and Mortars (grinding tools)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1968 and 1969
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 15 centimeters
Comment:
she (Prof. Carole Kaufmann) did Ph.D. thesis at UCLA on Haida argellite carvings.
Loans:
S1969-1970 #31: University of San Francisco (September 3, 1969–October 17, 1969) and S1975-1976 #9: Palo Alto Cultural Center (November 1974–unknown)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Mortar, accession number 2-47041, described as Frog-shaped with legs folded under; carved grey argellite. "Mortar (?); att. fide Prof. Carole Kaufmann, UC-Santa Cruz Anthropology Department".Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Mortar, accession number 2-47041, described as Frog-shaped with legs folded under; carved grey argellite. "Mortar (?); att. fide Prof. Carole Kaufmann, UC-Santa Cruz Anthropology Department".Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Mortar, accession number 2-47041, described as Frog-shaped with legs folded under; carved grey argellite. "Mortar (?); att. fide Prof. Carole Kaufmann, UC-Santa Cruz Anthropology Department".
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mortar, accession number 2-47041, described as Frog-shaped with legs folded under; carved grey argellite. "Mortar (?); att. fide Prof. Carole Kaufmann, UC-Santa Cruz Anthropology Department".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mortar, accession number 2-47041, described as Frog-shaped with legs folded under; carved grey argellite. "Mortar (?); att. fide Prof. Carole Kaufmann, UC-Santa Cruz Anthropology Department".

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