Camas Root Digger Handle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Aug 1935
name: label: Collector
content: Herbert W. Krieger
label: Donor Name
content: Herbert W. Krieger
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: SPEDIS WAS THE PRINCIPAL OLD SETTLEMENT OF THE WISHRAM, LYING 9 MILES WEST OF THE TOWN OF WISHRAM, ON THE NORTH BANK OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER ACROSS FROM THE DALLES. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 12, Plateau, Fig. 4c, p. 366.
label: Notes
content: 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. This digger is called 'gabn' in Kiksht and 'kupn' in Ichishkin/Sahaptin. Kiksht is the language of the Wasco people and Ichishkin is the language of the Warm Springs/Umatilla/Nez Perce/Yakima/Sahaptin people. Today they use the same forms, but with different materials. Shayleen Macy described that to use it you put the handle on the end and stick the digger into the ground and use it to lever the roots out of the ground.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Spedis, Klickitat County, Washington, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Wishram
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 135869
label: USNM Number
content: E374092-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Digging Stick Handle