Container

Museum number:
1-4296
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1543 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.135, Acc.136, Acc.137, and Acc.138
Description:
Double, tan colored gourd with hour glass shape. Stick of wood is attached to a piece of netting and is used as a plug; this is tied to upper lobe of gourd by a piece of commercial cotton cloth.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1904
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Containers (receptacles) and Gourds (plant components)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
For carrying water, seeds, etc.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
2.6 centimeters, length 14 centimeters, 5.5 inches, and length 25.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1956-1957 #3: Education Department (UC Berkeley)/Patricia Hughes (July 17, 1956–April 1, 1957) and S1973-1974 #58: Merritt College (February 1, 1974–April 24, 1974)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Container, accession number 1-4296, described as Double, tan colored gourd with hour glass shape. Stick of wood is attached to a piece of netting and is used as a plug; this is tied to upper lobe of gourd by a piece of commercial cotton cloth.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Container, accession number 1-4296, described as Double, tan colored gourd with hour glass shape. Stick of wood is attached to a piece of netting and is used as a plug; this is tied to upper lobe of gourd by a piece of commercial cotton cloth.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Container, accession number 1-4296, described as Double, tan colored gourd with hour glass shape. Stick of wood is attached to a piece of netting and is used as a plug; this is tied to upper lobe of gourd by a piece of commercial cotton cloth.

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