Whistle

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
1-14944
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010014944
Alternate number:
X (burial number)
Accession number:
Acc.381
Description:
Bone; partly covered with pitch or asphaltun, some beads. "Nos. 14944-50 ... These specimens, apparently made from human femurs were originally wound with some sort of string, the impressions of this being very distinct in the asphaltum at the time of the find.
Donor:
Nels C. Nelson
Collection place:
CA-Mrn-315 (San Rafael Shellmound), San Rafael, Marin County
Verbatim coll. place:
Burial X
Collector:
Nels C. Nelson
Collection date:
January 1910
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Whistles
Accession date:
1910
Context of use:
Burial.
Department:
Associated funerary objects
Dimensions:
length 9.5 inches
Comment:
Perhaps from Mrn-35", fide Gary Richards, 1995.
Loans:
S2001-2002 #15: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (January 23, 2002–January 23, 2003)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-14944, described as Bone; partly covered with pitch or asphaltun, some beads. "Nos. 14944-50 ... These specimens, apparently made from human femurs were originally wound with some sort of string, the impressions of this being very distinct in the asphaltum at the time of the find.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-14944, described as Bone; partly covered with pitch or asphaltun, some beads. "Nos. 14944-50 ... These specimens, apparently made from human femurs were originally wound with some sort of string, the impressions of this being very distinct in the asphaltum at the time of the find.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-14944, described as Bone; partly covered with pitch or asphaltun, some beads. "Nos. 14944-50 ... These specimens, apparently made from human femurs were originally wound with some sort of string, the impressions of this being very distinct in the asphaltum at the time of the find.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-14944, described as Bone; partly covered with pitch or asphaltun, some beads. "Nos. 14944-50 ... These specimens, apparently made from human femurs were originally wound with some sort of string, the impressions of this being very distinct in the asphaltum at the time of the find.

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