Cluster or 3 cocoons of the silk moth Antherea polyphemus, and feather quills bound together with twine.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Coyote Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Coyote Valley
Culture or time period:
Northern Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
January 1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Musical rattles
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 26 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4996 Published: BAE B78 Fig. 37 Remarks: See 15-7985; cf. 1-2403. Objects collected at the Coyote Valley Rancheria by Samuel Barrett may have been collected from Mary Louie, one of his consultants there. Mary Louie was Eastern Pomo, despite the fact that Coyote Valley Rancheria is in Northern Pomo territory. Other Barrett consultants from Coyote Valley include Topsy Pettis, Mollie Duncan, and Lizzie Jamison, all of whom were Northern Pomo.