Mush paddle, handle carved with ten triangular cut-outs, rectangular grips at both ends of handle.
Donor:
Frank G. Gist Jr.
Collection place:
Sacramento, Sacramento County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
United States, California, Sacramento
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Maker or artist:
Frank G. Gist Jr.
Collector:
Ira Jacknis
Collection date:
4-15-1995
Materials:
Maple (wood) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mush paddles
Function:
1.5 Household
Production date:
March 1995
Accession date:
May 10, 1995
Context of use:
Used to stir acorn mush.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 8.5 centimeters and length 61 centimeters
Comment:
Made on commission from the museum at the request of Ira Jacknis, Associate Research Anthropologist in anticipation of exhibition and publication. Gist's version of Yurok paddle (1-2035, in Isabel Kelly, 1930: pl. 112d)
Loans:
S1994-1995 #4: unknown (1994–December 19, 1996), S1995-1996 #3: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (July 16, 1995–July 16, 1995), and S1996-1997 #3: Great Valley Museum of Natural History (September 4, 1996–December 17, 1996)