Cedar Log Ladder
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Frank Burns
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Cut into steps for ladder. 7 or 8 steps. It stood under an overhanging rock-shelter of millstone grit, in the mountains on the southern branch of the Warrior R. and was used to mount to a cave or crevice. "This timber was used for reaching the top of a bluff to make interment of the dead.""
label: Notes
content: Reference: pp. 452-453 in Burns, Frank. 1893. "The Crump burial cave. (Blount county, Alabama.)". U. S. National Museum Annual Report for the year ending June 30, 1892. 1893. 24: 451-454. "About five miles north of the Crump Cave, on the mountain of limestone just beneath the overhanging cliff of Millstone Grit, I found and forwarded to the Museum an Indian ladder which stood against the precipice and had been used to mount or climb up to what the people call a "rock house," i.e., a large, roomy, dry place overhanging cliffs of stone, probably used like the cave, for burial purposes. This ladder is the trunk of a cedar tree about 8 inches in diameter, is about 14 feet long, has 7 or 8 steps, 18 or 19 inches apart, made by cutting nto the tree a scarf about 6 inches high and 2 inches deep. Near the foot of the ladder, but out in the open air, was a rock mound of good size, from which some relics had been dug by parties hunting for buried Indian money."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Blount County, Alabama, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 014255
label: USNM Number
content: A107333-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ladder