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date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Dec 1866
label: Collection Date
content: 1853 to 1854
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Edward G. Beckwith
label: Collector
content: Capt. John W. Gunnison
label: Donor Name
content: Lt. Edward G. Beckwith
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies E1799 and E1800 as from Utah and list their culture using the derogatory/offensive name of "Digger Indians". "Digger Indians" was a term that came to be indiscriminately applied to a number of different indigenous people in the West/Northwest. With that said, there are some potential clues on its meaning for E1799 and E1800 in Beckwith, E. G., John Torrey, and A. Gray. 1854. Report of Explorations for a Route for the Pacific Railroad, on the Line of the Forty-First Parallel of North Latitude, 1854 . One possibility for E1799/E1800 might be Goshute/Gosiute? See Murphy, Robert F., and Yolanda Murphy. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence And Society, Release Date: February 15, 2012 [EBook #38884]. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38884/38884-h/38884-h.htm: "In 1854 Lieutenant E. G. Beckwith explored the route of the forty-first parallel in search of a possible railroad route and encountered Gosiute [Goshute], Western Shoshone, and Northern Paiute Indians. He referred to all of them as "Diggers," and he apparently used this term generically for all the ... horseless Indians between Salt Lake City and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At Deep Creek, in Utah, he "found a band of twenty Shoshonee Indians encamped, besides women and children. They are mounted, and contrast strikingly with their Goshoot [Goshute] neighbors (Diggers) ..." (Beckwith, 1855, p. 25). Beckwith classed only mounted Indians as Shoshone: in Butte Valley, Nevada, the inhabitants of a "Digger wick-e-up" fled from the party, "taking us for Shoshonees" (p. 26). After leaving Western Shoshone territory [in the "country south of the Humboldt River", Nevada] he spoke of "Digger Indians, who call themselves Pah-Utah, however" (p. 34)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Indian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00100
label: USNM Number
content: E1799-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow