Wedge

Museum number:

1-1549

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010001549

Alternate number:

133 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.17 and Acc.86

Object count:

1

Description:

Elk antler, polished from usage. Curved.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Northwestern California

Verbatim coll. place:

California

Culture or time period:

Yurok

Collector:

Alfred L. Kroeber

Collection date:

1901

Taxon:

Cervus canadensis

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits

Accession date:

1903 and November 20, 1901

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

width 5.8 centimeters and length 24.6 centimeters

Loans:

S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966), S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965), and S1967-1968 #97: Junior Center of Art and Science (February 27, 1968–May 1, 1968)

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