Soapstone

Museum number:
1-10594
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Accession number:
Acc.247
Description:
Piece of soapstone.
Donor:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wailaki
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Soapstone (metamorphic rock)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used in making the rims of pipe bowls.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Soapstone, accession number 1-10594, described as Piece of soapstone.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Soapstone, accession number 1-10594, described as Piece of soapstone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Soapstone, accession number 1-10594, described as Piece of soapstone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Soapstone, accession number 1-10594, described as Piece of soapstone.

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