Head dart

Museum number:

1-1900

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Alternate number:

484 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.67, Acc.69, and Acc.86

Object count:

1

Description:

Part of old headdress called rego; made of the red feathers.from the shoulder of the black bird. Deer sinew or rawhide wrap, unknown feathers.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Northwestern California

Verbatim coll. place:

California

Culture or time period:

Yurok

Collector:

Alfred L. Kroeber

Collection date:

1902

Taxon:

Odocoileus

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama

Accession date:

1903, January 15, 1903, and July 15, 1902

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

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