Basketwork (Shield?)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1904
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of Interior
label: Site Name
content: Mummy Cave
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Flat tray coiled basketry with three-rod foundation. Under side plain showing two burnt places; upper side painted. The central portion 9 in. di. red, and on the border yellow. This painting is much later than date of the basket. Remains of four cords and things are found on the basket - two of buckskin, and two of yucca cord plaited. Traces of two pairs of holes for other cords are seen also. This interesting and rare object may be a shield or it may have been used as a gambling tray. A faint outline of a figure (bear? frog?) in black covers a large portion of the disk. Ill. 24th An. Rep. BAE, frontispiece; Described p. 140." Link to online scanned version of illustration of artifact in the Bureau of American Ethnology 24th Annual Report: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27736182 . Link to p. 140 of the publication: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27736331 .
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 46 & 47 in Powell, Eric A. "Defending the Canyonlands: Rare Shields from the American Southwest Are a Legacy of a Turbulent Time in Native History." Archaeology, 76 no. 4, July/August 2023: 43-47.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Canyon Del Muerto, Apache County, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 043470
label: USNM Number
content: A231776-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield