Bone Scraper
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Dec 1875
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975" FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BEAMING TOOL.---MADE FROM THE TIBIA OF A HORSE. THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE OR NO MODIFICATION OF THE BONE. THE FIBULA FURNISHES A MOST EXCELLENT NATURAL EDGE FOR THE TOOL. THE RAWHIDE THONG IS PLACED AROUND THE WRIST AND ASSISTS IN HOLDING THE TOOL FIRM. LENGTH, 14 INCHES. PIUTE INDIANS (SHOSHONEAN STOCK), SOUTHERN UTAH. 1875. 19,881. COLLECTED BY MAJ. J. W. POWELL." This object was mistakenly listed as # 19891 for a number of years, and card for that number notes it is: "BEAMING TOOL OF HORSE TIBIA - ILLUS. IN USNM AR 1889, PL. 90, FIG. 1; P. 589."
label: Notes
content: Under incorrect number of 19891 this object is listed as "Beaming tool" and illustrated (Figure 69b, cf. Mason 1891a, pl. 90, fig. 1) in Fowler and Matley (1979) with the following remarks: "Made from horse tibia/fibula...erroneously listed by Mason as 'Paiute, Southern Utah.'" p. 75
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution as Goose Creek Shoshone per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiute
label: Culture
content: Shoshone, Northern, Goose Creek
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 75A00070
label: USNM Number
content: E19881-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hide Scraper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 36 cm