PGMNH: From the Collection

Highlights from the permanent collection of the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History. http://www.pgmuseum.org/ https://www.facebook.com/pgmuseum https://twitter.com/PGMuseum https://www.instagram.com/pgmuseum/

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Woven fabric

Camelid hair fiber, vegetable dyes

Nazca manufacture, Southern Peru, circa 100 BCE - 600 CE

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Trilobite (Elrathia kingii) fossil

Millard County, Utah, Middle Cambrian period

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“Buteo Vulgaris”, William Swainson, circa 1831

Hand-colored engraving from “Fauna Boreali-Americana” published 1835

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Twined basket

Pine root, maidenhair fern, bear grass leaf

Unknown Achomawi artisan, Northern Central California, early to mid 20th century

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Photographic print, William F. Bryan, 1973

From a set of 33 sea otter “portraits”

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Flagstaff Red style cooking bowl

Unslipped clay

Tuzigoot manufacture, Northern Arizona, 1100-1300 CE

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Fishing hook

Bone, iron nail, lead, sinew

Age and manufacture unknown, Northern Alaska

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Abalone blister pearl

Monterey Bay, early 20th century

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Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)

Live-mount by unknown preparator

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Scraper

Abalone shell

Excavated from Shell Midden in Pacific Grove, CA, circa 1400 CE

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Trench Knife

Steel, brass, wood

Watervliet Arsenal, Buffalo, New York, circa 1863

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“Crotophaga Rugirostra”, William Swainson, 1831

Hand-colored engraving from “Fauna Boreali-Americana”, 1835

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Goethite (”Grape Iron”)

Iron Hydroxide, FeO(OH)

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Axe

Steel, wood

Unknown Balbalasang artisan, Northern Luzon, Philippines, late 19th to early 20th century

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Photographic print, Dames & Butler Photography, 1881

“Studio portrait of  girl, Henrietta May Street, who was born on October 6, 1876. C.K. Tuttle's niece. Dames & Butler artist's palette with feathers logo on back of cabinet card.”

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“Camass” (Camassia quamash), Winifred G. Stewart, circa 1935

Watercolor and pencil on paper

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Glass-plate negative, C.K. Tuttle, 1900

“Tuttle's negative sleeve calls this "Saw Mill Gulch Bridge." Clark's Monterey County Place Names locates Sawmill Gutch in the Del Monte Forest, heading near Huckleberry Hill, and near the area once covered by Lake Majella, near Spanish Bay.”

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