Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1962.21 A-C: 'Three bone awls. 1962.21 B: Tip broken.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Jeremiah B. Lillard and the Sacramento Junior College Field Party, 1937, from Bennet Mound.
Note: exchange list (Doc.576) spells the site as 'Bennett Mound' and gives the site code as Sac-60, but the current Hearst Museum record for L-1864 spells the site as 'Bennet Mound' and gives the code as CA-Sac-16.
Event Date 1937
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Acquired in 1962 as part of an exchange with the University of California, Berkeley Museum of Anthropology (now the Pheobe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology); MAA sent material from Papua New Guinea (Hearst Museum nos. 11-37061 to 11-37086). See archive (Doc.576) for details.
Event Date 1962
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Hearst Museum catalogue record for this object on the online database gives the Cultural Group as 'Nisenan', which has now been added to this record.
Event Date 31/3/2025
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Bone awl with one proximal end, likely made from bone splint.
Event Date 1/4/2025
Author: Diana Serediuc