comb, wood; round sticks (12), pointed at one end, lashed together with twined cordage; two sticks at outside edge longer than middle 10; L 17.7cm x W 7.6cm
Donor:
Charles Atwood Kofoid, D. L. Spencer, Miss Faurote, and William A. Setchell
Collection place:
Butte County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Butte County
Culture or time period:
Maidu
Collector:
D. L. Spencer
Collection date:
1904
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Combs (grooming tools)
Function:
1.8 Toilet Articles and 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1905
Context of use:
model made by the Indians at the direction of D.L. Spencer, per arrangement of A.L. Kroeber with R.B. Dixon
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Loans:
S2006-2007 #4: Museum of Anthropology (CSU Chico) (January 26, 2007–June 4, 2007)