{"id":"LOUD1929-001","label":"Lovelock Cave horn and wood pendants","people_or_site":"Lovelock Cave","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Humboldt Valley, Nevada (Great Basin; historic Northern Paiute context)","macroregion":"North America / Great Basin","local_name":"","source_term":"horn pendant / wooden pendant","source_language":"English","object_description":"Two distinct pendant-class objects from Lovelock Cave. One is mountain-sheep horn, 105 x 38 x 3–5 mm, with one narrow-end perforation and a flat body. The other is wood, 3¾ in. long and ¼ in. thick, with one hole at its narrow end.","function_summary":"Both are published as pendants; no ancient use is recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"loud_harrington_1929_lovelock","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/LovelockCaveLoudAndHarrington1929","page_or_plate":"pp. 24, 51, 113; Plates 15c and 48f","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Lovelock Cave Historic Site, Nevada (39.96254N, 118.55858W), as published by the Bureau of Land Management; the 1929 report places the cave in the Humboldt Mountains above the drained Humboldt Lake bed.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Lovelock Cave, a dry shelter above the old Humboldt Lake bed, horn and wood survived where they usually vanish. One pendant was worked flat from mountain-sheep horn; another, a slip of wood under four inches long, came from the sixth level of the 1924 excavation. Both were published simply as pendants. They belong to an older archaeological record at a place later associated with Northern Paiute communities, but the two finds themselves have no shared date or recorded use.","pull_quote":"Too thick and clumsy for use as a spoon, perforation at the narrower end.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Loud and Harrington, Lovelock Cave (1929), p. 51","term_gloss":"Pendant: the object class the 1929 excavators assigned to both pieces; no Indigenous name or ancient function is recorded for either.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"assemblage","date_display":"c. 1000 BC–AD 300","date_qualification":"Site-level Late Holocene horizon; neither pendant is directly dated.","date_basis":"site_horizon","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"loud_harrington_1929_lovelock; Heizer 1952; Tuohy and Napton 1986 American Antiquity 51(4):813-816","sources":[{"citation":"L. L. Loud and M. R. Harrington, Lovelock Cave, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 25(1) (1929), pp. 51 and 113, Plates 15c and 48f (catalogue 1-19326 and 13-4929)","url":"https://archive.org/details/LovelockCaveLoudAndHarrington1929"}],"source_citations":"L. L. Loud and M. R. Harrington, Lovelock Cave, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 25(1) (1929), pp. 51 and 113, Plates 15c and 48f (catalogue 1-19326 and 13-4929)","source_display":"L. L. Loud and M. R. Harrington, Lovelock Cave, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 25(1) (1929), pp. 51 and 113, Plates 15c and 48f (catalogue 1-19326 and 13-4929)","date_citation_display":"Loud Harrington 1929 Lovelock; Heizer 1952; Tuohy and Napton 1986 American Antiquity 51(4):813-816","object_display":"Two distinct pendant-class objects from Lovelock Cave. One is mountain-sheep horn, 105 x 38 x 3–5 mm, with one narrow-end perforation and a flat body. The other is wood, 3¾ in. long and ¼ in. thick, with one hole at its narrow end.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"lovelock cave","display_name":"Lovelock Cave horn and wood pendants","image":{"full":"assets/objects/LOUD1929-001_plate15_full.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/LOUD1929-001_plate15_full_thumb.jpg","credit":"L. L. Loud and M. R. Harrington, Lovelock Cave (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 25(1), 1929), Plate 15; Internet Archive scan","license":"Public domain (US publication, 1929)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/LovelockCaveLoudAndHarrington1929/page/n206/mode/1up","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Loud and Harrington's complete Plate 15, ‘Objects of horn and wood’; the horn pendant is fig. c.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/LOUD1929-001_plate48_full.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/LOUD1929-001_plate48_full_thumb.jpg","credit":"L. L. Loud and M. R. Harrington, Lovelock Cave (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 25(1), 1929), Plate 48; Internet Archive scan","license":"Public domain (US publication, 1929)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/LovelockCaveLoudAndHarrington1929/page/n239/mode/1up","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Loud and Harrington's complete Plate 48, ‘Snares, wooden pendants, etc.’; the perforated wooden pendant is fig. f."}]},"slug":"loud1929-001-lovelock-cave"}