Deep Mush-Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD (this text is taken from a 19th or early 20th century exhibit label; for original label see card E11276): "COILED BASKET BOWLS OF THE UTE INDIANS (SHOSHONEAN STOCK). MADE FROM SPLIT WILLOW, COILED OVER BUNCHES OF SMALL TWIGS. IN SOME EXAMPLES THE WORK IS DONE CARELESSLY, THE FILAMENTS PIERCING AND DIVIDING THE STITCHES OF THE PRECEDING COIL; IN OTHERS, THE SEWING IS SO CAREFULLY LAID ON THAT IT PRESENTS A UNIFORM SURFACE AND IN NO CASE DOES ONE STITCH INTERFERE WITH ANOTHER. UTAH. 1,876; 11,276; 11,863 1/2; 11,867 1/2; 14,712-14,739. COLLECTED BY MAJOR J. W. POWELL. FROM CARD: 14704-25. BASKET WORK. NO. 14723 SENT AS A GIFT TO PUBLIC MUSEUM, HARRIMAN, TENN., JUNE 27, 1922. NO. 14714 SENT AS A GIFT TO UNION UNIVERSITY, JACKSON, TENN., JAN. 31, 1923. NO. 14715: GIFT-SACRED HEART SCHOOL 39 ADELPHI STREET BROOKLYN, N.Y. DEC. 24, 1914. #14720 - ILLUS. IN NAT. MUS. REPT 1884, PL. XXV, FIG. 47. #14719 - ILLUS. FIG. 48. 14720 LOAN TO 1876 CENTENNIAL COMM. 4/20/70. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: MUSH BOWL.-MADE BY COILING A SPLINT AND THIN STRIP OF YUCCA, BAST, OR OSIER, AND WHIPPING THEM WITH SPLIT OSIER. ORNAMENTATION PRODUCED BY WORKING INTO THE FABRIC SPLINTS DYED BLACK. THE WORK IS VERY REGULAR AND THE TEXTURE WATER-TIGHT. DIAMETER, 6 3/4 INCHES; DEPTH, 2 1/4 INCHES. PAIUTE INDIANS (SHOSHONEAN STOCK), SOUTHERN UTAH 1874. 14,720. COLLECTED BY MAJ. J. W. POWELL."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated in Fowler and Matley (1979) (Figure 5d, cf. Mason 1885, pl 25, fig. 47)
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: South, 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: 74A00055
label: USNM Number
content: E14720-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 17.14 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 5.71 cm