Instrument For Kindling Fire (Whu-Tu-Ni-Meap)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Dec 1872
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "11976-82. 11977 PEABODY MUS. 11982 LEIDEN MUS. MAY, 99. NO.11981; EXCHANGE-MR. J. D. E. SMELTER LEIDEN MUSEUM LEIDEN HOLLAND, MAY-,1899. #11976 - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; FIG. 8; P. 539; AND IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 73, ART. 14; FIG. 8; P. 16. 11978, 11979, 11976, INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "FIRE-DRILL.--LOWER PIECE OF THE DRIED FLOWER STALK OF THE YUCCA, A VERY GOOD MATERIAL FOR FIRE-MAKING. SPINDLE OF TULE REED, SET WITH A HEAD OF HARD WOOD. LENGTH OF LOWER PIECE, 20 INCHES; LENGTH OF SPINDLE, 23 INCHES. PIUTE INDIANS (SHOSHONIAN STOCK), SOUTHERN UTAH. 11,976. COLLECTED BY MAJ. J. W. POWELL. THE SPLICED SPINDLE IS CHARACTERISTIC OF THE UTES, APACHES, NAVAJOES, AND OTHER GREAT BASIN TRIBES. THEIR ARROWS ARE MADE IN THE SAME WAY."
label: Notes
content: "Hearth and compound drill. Hearth of yucca stalk (Yucca sp.) with three fire holes all charred from use...Straight drill spindle of tule reed with whort bit of greasewook (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) inserted in reed-cane and seized with glue and sinew. Fowler and Matley (1979) p. 74.
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Notes
content: Hearths and drills similar to those in the collection are reported throughout the Great Basin area. Dellenbaugh (1906:250) illustrates a compound drill that he collected in southern Utah in 1872 while with the Powell expedition. Figure 67 shows a Kaibab Paiute man using a palm drill." Fowler and Matley (1979) p. 75
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Feb 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Southern, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiute, Southern, Kaibab
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002357
label: USNM Number
content: E11976-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Set
physicalDescription: label: Length - Lower Piece
content: 51 cm
label: Length - Spindle
content: 58 cm