Cocoon. Cluster of five silk moth (Antheraea polyphemus, Cramer), bound together with cotton twine and feather quills.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Upper Lake, Lake County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Lake; Upper Lake
Culture or time period:
Eastern Pomo
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1901
Taxon:
Antheraea polyphemus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Musical rattles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 15 centimeters
Comment:
Cocoon identified by Prof. Middlecoff, Dept. of Entymology, June, 1966. This species is in the Saturnidae family and feeds on willow, manzanita, coffee berry, and ceanothus.