Necklace
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: "11995-7. PORCUPINE QUILL. 11996 TROCADERO. 11996: INVENTORIED 1975." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "NECKLACE.--MADE OF A BUCKSKIN STRING, INCLOSED IN A PLAIT OF PORCUPINE QUILLS. BITS OF GRAY FUR AND A SMALL BUCKSKIN BAG (MEDICINE CHARMS) ARE ATTACHED TO THE NECKLACE. LENGTH, 26 INCHES; WIDTH, 1/4 INCH. PAIUTE INDIANS (SHOSHONEAN STOCK), SOUTHERN UTAH. 11,996. COLLECTED BY MAJ. J. W. POWELL."
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Notes
content: Smithsonian Archives distribution files indicate that # 11996, a buckskin necklace covered with porcupine quills, Paiute, was exchanged with the Trocadero Museum, France, in 1883. Smithsonian records indicate this object was exchanged with the Trocadero Museum. See Cat. 59 p. 178 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is for a necklace, Musee du Quai Branly catalog no. 71.1885.78.343, which their records identify as former Smithsonian no. 11996. Current object in Anthropology collections is possibly misnumbered?, since it is made of bird bones and the catalogue indicates it should be porcupine quills. The necklace at the Branly includes porcupine quills, which fits the catalogue description and old exhibit label description better. One possibility is that the current object bearing this number might be 11994?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Southern, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Shoshone, Western, Deep Creek Gosiute (Goshute)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002357
label: USNM Number
content: E11996-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 66 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 0.64 cm