Apron

Museum number:
1-1686
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010001686
Alternate number:
270 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.17 and Acc.86
Description:
Woman's apron with leather at top followed by beargrass, glass bead, and juniper berry bead strings, with pine nut beads at end of fringe. Glass beads are primarily white with some blue interspersed with juniper berry. Commercial fabric ties.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Aprons (main garments)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1903 and November 20, 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Loans:
S1964-1965 #31: Science Center (Diablo Valley College) (1960–July 21, 1967), S1967-1968 #97: Junior Center of Art and Science (February 27, 1968–May 1, 1968), and S1975-1976 #43: California Academy of Sciences (December 16, 1975–March 23, 1978)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Apron, accession number 1-1686, described as Woman's apron with leather at top followed by beargrass, glass bead, and juniper berry bead strings, with pine nut beads at end of fringe. Glass beads are primarily white with some blue interspersed with juniper berry. Commercial fabric ties.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Apron, accession number 1-1686, described as Woman's apron with leather at top followed by beargrass, glass bead, and juniper berry bead strings, with pine nut beads at end of fringe. Glass beads are primarily white with some blue interspersed with juniper berry. Commercial fabric ties.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Apron, accession number 1-1686, described as Woman's apron with leather at top followed by beargrass, glass bead, and juniper berry bead strings, with pine nut beads at end of fringe. Glass beads are primarily white with some blue interspersed with juniper berry. Commercial fabric ties.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Apron, accession number 1-1686, described as Woman's apron with leather at top followed by beargrass, glass bead, and juniper berry bead strings, with pine nut beads at end of fringe. Glass beads are primarily white with some blue interspersed with juniper berry. Commercial fabric ties.

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