Round Grinding Stone
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: 200,000 SERIES; ROUND GRINDING STONE OR HAMMER STONE; "DIGGER, HOLMES."
label: Notes
content: This object is most likely from Accession 34809. "Holmes" would refer to William Henry Holmes. "Digger" most likely would indicate the tribe, and therefore this piece is probably from California, based on information on the history of Acc. 34809. Note that per the Columbian Electronic Encyclopedia, 2007, "Digger Indians" is a "term indiscriminately applied to many Native Americans of the central plateau region of W North America, including tribes in Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and central California. The name is supposedly derived from the fact that they dug roots for food. It has no ethnological significance and was a term of opprobrium."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET7794-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pestle