With a sharp point. This is made from the proximal end of posterior cannon bone (fused metatarsal) of Odocoileus (deer). Split from foreleg of deer and polished off.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Avery, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Avery
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Taxon:
Odocoileus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Awls
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used in sewing and weaving.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "tculla" - bone awl. Photo: 15-4814. Published: Bureau of American Ethnology Bull. 78, fig. 67; Milw. Pub. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 39.