Tools For Fire Making
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: PROVENIENCE IS UNCERTAIN FOR #E022007-27, ENTERED IN THE LEDGER ONLY AS "NO. WYOMING" BUT RECORDED VARIOUSLY IN THE CARD CATALOG AS "NORTHERN WYOMING," "WIND RIVER," OR "WIND RIVER AGENCY." NOTES IN THE ACCESSION FILE BY NEIL M. JUDD (AUGUST 1915) STATE, "NEITHER THE NATURE OF THE MATERIAL NOR THE LOCALITIES FROM WHICH IT CAME IS INDICATED." FROM CARD: "22022-25. #22022 - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; FIG. 9; P. 539; ALSO IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 73, ART. 14, FIG. 9, P. 17. 22022: INVENTORIED 1975." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "FIRE-DRILL.--LOWER PIECE OF HARD WOOD, WITH EIGHT SHALLOW DEPRESSIONS PREPARED FOR THE SPINDLE ON ONE EDGE. SPINDLE, A WILLOW BRANCH, MORTISED WITH A HARD WOOD HEAD. LENGTH OF LOWER PIECE, 18 1/2 INCHES; LENGTH OF SPINDLE, 25 INCHES. SHOSHONE INDIANS (SHOSHONIAN STOCK), WIND RIVER, WYOMING. 22,022. COLLECTED BY MAJ. J. W. POWELL."
label: Notes
content: "Hearth and compound drill...Hearth is a ... thick piece of unidentified hardwood....The drill has a.... spindle of willow to which is hafted a ... greasewood bit... 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: 19 Dec 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Wind River (not certain), Wyoming Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Shoshone, Eastern, Wind River
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004260
label: USNM Number
content: E22022-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Set
physicalDescription: label: Length - Lower Piece
content: 47 cm
label: Length - Spindle
content: 64 cm