Ball model

Museum number:
1-10361
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010361
Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
Cover of buckskin, filling of cedar bark.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Avery, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Avery
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Balls (object genres)
Function:
5.6 Sports, Games, Amusements; Gambling and Pet Accessories
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used in playing men's football game.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Native name: "posko". Photo: 15-5976. Published: Milwaukee Publ. Museum Bull. v. 2, pl. 55.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966), S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965), S1966-1967 #40: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (November 30, 1966–December 2, 1966), and S1979-1980 #51: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (March 25, 1980–May 12, 1980)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Ball model, accession number 1-10361, described as Cover of buckskin, filling of cedar bark.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Ball model, accession number 1-10361, described as Cover of buckskin, filling of cedar bark.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Ball model, accession number 1-10361, described as Cover of buckskin, filling of cedar bark.

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