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: "Hearth and compound drill. Hearth is of sapwood of juniper (Juniperensis sp.)...Hearth is notched at one end ... The drill has a...35cm long, 1cm diameter willow spindle, split on one end for hafting of 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: E17230-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Set