Auger or awl

Museum number:
5-3381
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Alternate number:
32 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1770
Object count:
1
Description:
auger or awl; steel pint with leather covered wooden handle; 3 leather pads affixed to handle. L = 7 1/8”.
Donor:
University Appropriation and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Western Africa
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; West Coast; no location
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
July 1963
Materials:
Leather, Steel (alloy), and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Awls
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 18.098 centimeters
Comment:
Note: The “Original Number” that appears on the catalogue card is the Appraiser’s number; not a Bascom index number. PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A, W-13-6
Loans:
S1964-1965 #5: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/William Russell Bascom (July 16, 1964–July 16, 1964)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Auger or awl, accession number 5-3381, described as auger or awl; steel pint with leather covered wooden handle; 3 leather pads affixed to handle. L = 7 1/8”.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Auger or awl, accession number 5-3381, described as auger or awl; steel pint with leather covered wooden handle; 3 leather pads affixed to handle. L = 7 1/8”.

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