Flaker

Museum number:
1-19591a
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm2101019591a
Accession number:
Acc.477D
Description:
Double ended flaking tool. Nails at both ends with wood center wrapped with twine.
Donor:
Ishi
Collection place:
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Francisco; San Francisco
Culture or time period:
Yana
Collector:
Ishi
Collection date:
April 1915
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Flakers
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1915
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Loans:
S2018-2019 #4: Bundeskunsthalle (August 27, 2019–January 16, 2020)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Flaker, accession number 1-19591a, described as Double ended flaking tool. Nails at both ends with wood center wrapped with twine.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Flaker, accession number 1-19591a, described as Double ended flaking tool. Nails at both ends with wood center wrapped with twine.

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