Stool (Sticks Tied Together)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Feb 1895
name: label: Collector
content: William J. McGee
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE OF 35 PIECES OF WOOD, FROM 10 TO 13" LONG; 33 PIECES OF OCOTILLA CACTUS, ONE PIECE OF SPLIT SEHUARA CACTUS, AND ONE PIECE MISSING. ALMOST SQUARE IN SHAPE, BUILT UP IN LOG-HOUSE FASHION BY NOTCHING EACH STICK NEAR EITHER END AND ALTERNATING THE PARALLEL SIDES IN SUPER-POSITION, HAVING THE NOTCHES AT RIGHT ANGLES FIT INTO EACH OTHER. THE SEAT IS 10 CROSSPIECES LAID CLOSE TOGETHER. THE ENTIRE FRAME IS HELD TOGETHER BY RAWHIDE LASHINGS AT ONE CROSSING OF EACH STICK WITH ANOTHER. THE NEED OF CHAIRS AND STOOLS TO SUPPORT THE PERSON SEEMS NEVER TO HAVE BEEN FELT BY THE INDIAN, AND THE FEW EXAMPLES OF CHAIRS AND STOOLS AMONG THE PAPAGO INDIANS ARE THERE THROUGH ACCULTURAL INFLUENCES--MEXICAN PROBABLY, AS SUCH STOOLS ARE QUITE COMMON FURNITURE TO THE MODEST ADOBE CASITAS. AT PITIQUITA AND ELSEWHERE IS SONORA, MEXICO, BEDS ARE MADE IN SIMILAR FASHION BY THE PAPAGO INDIANS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, San Xavier Reservation / Pima County, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Papago (Tohono O'odham)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029025
label: USNM Number
content: E174538-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stool