Notched Stick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: PROVENIENCE IS UNCERTAIN FOR #E022007-27, ENTERED IN THE LEDGER ONLY AS "NO. WYOMING" BUT RECORDED VARIOUSLY IN THE CARD CATALOG AS "NORTHERN WYOMING," "WIND RIVER," OR "WIND RIVER AGENCY." NOTES IN THE ACCESSION FILE BY NEIL M. JUDD (AUGUST 1915) STATE, "NEITHER THE NATURE OF THE MATERIAL NOR THE LOCALITIES FROM WHICH IT CAME IS INDICATED." FROM CARD: "A RECTANGULAR STICK HAVING 17 NOTCHES ACROSS ONE FACE. NOT IN COLLECTIONS. INVENTORIED 1975." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "NOTCHED RATTLE. MADE OF A RECTANGULAR PIECE OF CEDAR WITH NOTCHES CUT ON ONE OF THE EDGES. STICK OF THE SAME MATERIAL. PLAYED BY SETTING THE OUTER END ON A SONOROUS BODY AND RUBBING THE NOTCHES WITH THE STICK. IT IS FOR ACCOMPANIMENT IN DANCES. WYOMING. 22,026; 22,027. COLLECTED BY J. W. POWELL."
label: Notes
content: Listed under Musical Instruments/ Rasps in Fowler and Matley (1979) with the following remarks: "The collection consists of one complete and three partial notched-stick or musical rasp instrument sets..... A second passive element (USNM 22026), also from Wind River, consists of a rectangular juniper wood stick. ... The active element is missing." p. 71
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Wind River (not certain), Wyoming Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Shoshone, Eastern, Wind River
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004260
label: USNM Number
content: E22026-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rasp