Mountain Sheep Horn Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1862
name: label: Donor Name
content: Capt. George Gibbs
notes: label: Notes
content: THOUGH ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS WOODEN, OBJECT APPEARS TO BE HORN. *SEE* A TIME OF GATHERING BY ROBIN K. WRIGHT, 1991, P. 93, WHERE OBJECT IS IDENTIFIED AS A MOUNTAIN SHEEP HORN BOWL, WASCO/WISHRAM STYLE OF GEOMETRIC CARVING. FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED. CHINOOK? LENT TO THE BURKE MUSEUM, 2/23/89. LOAN RETURNED OCT.10,1989. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 4D, PG. 539." OBJECT IS ILLUSTRATED ON P. 8 ("D") OF DAVID IVES BUSHNELL, "DRAWINGS BY GEORGE GIBBS IN THE FAR NORTHWEST, 1849-1851," SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 97.8 (1938). - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997. Bushnell indicates this object was collected by George Gibbs probably in 1850 or 1851.
label: Notes
content: Pamela Cardenas, Shayleen Macy and Valerie Switzler of the Wasco delegation from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs made these comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit Aug 31-Sept 4, 2015. For the Wasco, the cup or bowl is the center of the culture, it is what our stories are based off. Our creation stories are based off coming out of a spring that was shaped like a bowl. These objects are unique to our tribe because it represents us. We don't differentiate between a cup, ladle/spoon, or bowl. Shayleen noted that it is interesting how the Wasco don't make the designs anymore, the simple zigzags, triangles and chevrons. This horn bowl work hasn't been carried into the contemporary. You used to see these all around, everyone had them, but not anymore. Mountain sheep is 'kakwiq' or 'kakwik' in Kiksht. There are still mountain sheep around, they live in the mountains along the Columbia River, but that's not where our reservation is. You can see the sheep from the mountains, we can hunt them because it is ceded land. Our ceded land runs from Mount Hood to Multnomah Falls. Kiksht is the language of the Wasco tribe.
label: Notes
content: For more information, see pdf of additional documentation on the Gibbs collections provided by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa which is filed with the Emu accession/transaction record.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Jul 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Columbia River, Lower, Oregon (not certain) / Washington (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Wasco
label: Culture
content: Wishram
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000051
label: USNM Number
content: E691-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl