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Crooks and Digging Sticks
Crooks and Digging Sticks
Object Number 2004.24.6228
Display Title Crooks and Digging Sticks
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Archaeological
Subject
  • Artifact
  • Expedition
  • Gathering
  • digging stick
Department Photographic
Date 1914
Artist Samuel J. Guernsey
Culture
  • Southwest
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms Northeast
Materials Negative, glass plate
Dimensions Overall: 15.24 x 20.32 cm (6 x 8 in.)

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Crooks and Digging Sticks
2004.24.6227 Crooks and Digging Sticks
Arizona
/Twikwe's possessions, including (top to bottom, left to right) a piece of wood hollowed in center used to trip iron traps, a small stick, a bundle of sharpened sticks used to peg down a hide to stretch it, a fire paddle, 2 sticks, a digging stick, a bow, arrow with a bone point shaped like a needle, and a quiver, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.20878 /Twikwe's possessions, including (top to bottom, left to right) a piece of wood hollowed in center used to trip iron traps, a small stick, a bundle of sharpened sticks used to peg down a hide to stretch it, a fire paddle, 2 sticks, a digging stick, a bow, arrow with a bone point shaped like a needle, and a quiver, with a ruler for measurement
/Ai Ha !O Pan
/Twikwe's possessions, including (top to bottom, left to right) a piece of wood hollowed in center used to trip iron traps, a small stick, a bundle of sharpened sticks used to peg down a hide to stretch it, a fire paddle, 2 sticks, a digging stick, a bow, arrow with a bone point shaped like a needle, and a quiver, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.27259 /Twikwe's possessions, including (top to bottom, left to right) a piece of wood hollowed in center used to trip iron traps, a small stick, a bundle of sharpened sticks used to peg down a hide to stretch it, a fire paddle, 2 sticks, a digging stick, a bow, arrow with a bone point shaped like a needle, and a quiver, with a ruler for measurement
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Pin, shepherd's crook
40-77-40/10681 Pin, shepherd's crook
Pin
Raw Material
Vinica
Four Ju/'hoan men digging for poison beetle larva with digging sticks
2001.29.19165 Four Ju/'hoan men digging for poison beetle larva with digging sticks
Gautscha
Three women with digging sticks, one digging, two standing
2001.29.15550 Three women with digging sticks, one digging, two standing
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Four men digging for poison beetle larva with digging sticks (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.13644 Four men digging for poison beetle larva with digging sticks (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Three arrows and two pokers, and two digging sticks
2004.24.18774 Three arrows and two pokers, and two digging sticks
Arizona
Digging sticks (wood), end roughly shaped to form point; this specimen is forked
971-2-50/11626 Digging sticks (wood), end roughly shaped to form point; this specimen is forked
Mechanical
Africa
Fiber Root: Two children digging with digging sticks near a group of people sitting under a tree
2001.29.1844 Fiber Root: Two children digging with digging sticks near a group of people sitting under a tree
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Fiber Root: Two children digging with digging sticks near a group of people sitting under a tree
2001.29.1845 Fiber Root: Two children digging with digging sticks near a group of people sitting under a tree
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Two children digging at the ground with digging sticks
2001.29.6836 Two children digging at the ground with digging sticks
Chukudu Kraal