Charmstone
- Museum number:
- 1-10748
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010010748
- Alternate number:
- 734 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.264, Acc.265, and Acc.266
- Description:
- Made of steatite. Projectile point-shaped, perforated for hanging. Shallow depressions throughout.
- Donor:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection place:
- Teshechu
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Fresno; Ticetcu
- Culture or time period:
- Yokuts
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection date:
- February 1907
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Charmstones
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- 1907
- Context of use:
- Said to have been worn about the neck purely as an ornament
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 7.8 centimeters and width 2.4 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-