Ear Ornaments 2
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Stephen Powers
label: Donor Name
content: Stephen Powers
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "EAR PLUG OF THE UKIE INDIANS (YUKIAN STOCK). MADE OF A SHAFT OF WOOD, TO THRUST THROUGH THE EAR BACKWARDS, EXPOSING IN FRONT A CONICAL PORTION DECORATED WITH RED FLANNEL, BEADS, AND FEATHERS." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "EAR ORNAMENTS.---STEM OF LIGHT PITHY WOOD, SURMOUNTED BY A WOODEN SPOOL-END COVERED WITH FLANNEL AND ORNAMENTED WITH SHELL BEADS, BUTTONS, QUAIL-PLUMES, AND PENDANT STRINGS OF WHITE BEADS AND BITS OF SHELL, HALIOTIS SPLENDENS. YORKIA INDIANS. LENGTH, 7 INS. DIAM. OF HEAD, 1 1/4 INS. CALIFORNIA, 1875. 21,408. COLLECTED BY STEPHEN POWERS. WORN IN HOLE IN LOBE OF EAR."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Apr 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Ukiah, Mendocino County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pomo, Yokaya
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004856
label: USNM Number
content: E21408-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Earring
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 18 cm
label: Diameter - Head
content: 3.17 cm