Basket For Carrying Seeds And Burdens
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: "14668-75. FOR CARRYING BURDENS AND SEEDS." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HARVESTING IMPLEMENTS OF THE PAI UTE INDIANS (SHOSHONEAN STOCK). CONSISTING OF A FAN MADE IN THE FORM OF A SPOON, OF TWIGS OR RODS LAID SIDE BY SIDE AND HELD TOGETHER BY A VERY LOOSE TWINED WEAVING. GATHERING BASKET, CONICAL IN FORM, CONSISTING OF TWIGS FOR WARP AND OF WEFT IN TWINED WEAVING WITH SPLIT TWIGS. ROASTING TRAY IN FORM OF A SCOOP, ALSO IN TWINED WEAVING. THE UTE WOMEN SET THE CONICAL BASKET ON THE GROUND IN FRONT OF RIPE GRASSES AND BEAT THE SEEDS AND CHAFF INTO THE CARRYING BASKET. AFTERWARDS SHE ROASTS THE SEED AND BURNS THE CHAFF WITH HOT STONES IN THE ROASTING TRAY. THEN THE SEEDS ARE GROUND ON A STONE MORTAR AND MADE INTO MUSH OR BREAD. UTAH. 14,668.-75. COLLECTED BY MAJOR J. W. POWELL."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated in Fowler & Matley (1979), (Figure 14c).
label: Notes
content: “Southern Paiute, Southern Utah” is a distinction observed by Fowler and Matley (1979) when specific band identification was not possible. “Southern Paiute. Southern Utah refers in general to the bands that Powell encountered in southern Utah and the Arizona Strip (that portion of present-day Arizona north of the Grand Canyon), i.e., the Kaibab, Uinkarets, Unkakaniguts and Shivwits.” [see: Fowler and Matley (1979), p. 5-6]
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Feb 2017
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00055
label: USNM Number
content: E14671-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket