Wood Block Carving
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Dec 1938
name: label: Donor Name
content: Adj Gen. Alfred C. Hawley
notes: label: Notes
content: E379950A.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Made in the manual training shop of the Fort Shaw Indian school. Entirely acculturated [sic] work. J.C.E. 1984. Remarks in quotes were on labels pasted to back of each carving. 24.3 x 23.9 cm. "Mary Johnson, Piegan, 17 years, time in shop 1 year".
label: Notes
content: Carved with floral design. Mary Johnson started at the Fort Shaw School September 1895. She completed the woodcarving at age seventeen, two years after her admittance to Fort Shaw. After three years of education at Fort Shaw (9/1895 -10/1898), Mary was hired on at the school. Her first position was as an Indian assistant, she was later promoted to a better paying appointment as assistant matron. Mary married Edward Rock Gobert, a fellow student turned employee at Fort Shaw as well. They married at the school Christmas Day in 1900. Both Mary Johnson and Eddie Gobert continued to work in the school before they moved home to their cattle ranch. They welcomed their first daughter in 1904 and a second one in 1906. Sometime after the birth of their second child, Mary died (between 1906 and 1910). Source: Scott, Kristi Dawn. "Child Artisans of the Northern Plains: Woodcarving at Fort Shaw Indian School, 1892-1910." M.A. Thesis, Montana State University, 2011.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Shaw Indian School, Cascade County, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi), Piegan (Piikani)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 150648
label: USNM Number
content: E379950-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Artwork