Cordage material

Museum number:

1-230632

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Accession number:

Acc.2871

Object count:

1

Count note:

1 bundle

Description:

Apocynum cannabinum stems, bundle.

Donor:

Lawrence E. Dawson

Collection place:

San Antonio River, Monterey County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Monterey; San Antonio River

Culture or time period:

Salinan

Collector:

Lawrence E. Dawson

Collection date:

ca. 1968

Taxon:

Apocynum cannabinum

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

8.3 For Manufacturing

Accession date:

1972

Context of use:

The thin fibrous bark is one of the most widely used cordage materials...North American Indians. The plant is abundant in small stream beds in Salinan country, was almost certainly utilized by them for making cordage and nets.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

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