Fire-Stick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Jan 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "17228-30. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; FIG. 7, P. 538 (#17230) #17230 ALSO IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 73, ART. 14; FIG. 7; P. 15 (HOUGH, FIRE-MAKING APPARATUS) INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: "Compound drill; hearth missing. Spindle of willow (Salix sp.) with 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: 22 Feb 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiute, Southern, Moapa
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 75A00015
label: USNM Number
content: E17228-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Set