Extractor model

Museum number:

1-9968

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010009968

Alternate number:

76 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254

Object count:

1

Description:

Model of deer horn implement. Used to extract acorns from the bark of trees where they have been placed by woodpeckers for winter storage.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Secret Diggings, Calaveras County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Calaveras; Secret Diggings

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

1.2 Gathering

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Used to extract acorns from the bark of trees where they have been placed by woodpeckers for winter storage.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Published: Milw. Pub. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 58.

Loans:

S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966) and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)

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