Stone Knife With Handle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "8/21/51. THIS SPECIMEN AS ILL. IN HOUGH: "SYNOPTIC SERIES" IS STILL IN THE COLLECTION. RAE JR. EXCHANGE FOR MODERN TOOLS OF JAPAN TOKIO NORMAL SCHOOL TOKIO, JAPAN. APRIL 12, 1905. INVENTORIED 1975. EXCHANGE 38449 EDWARD LOVETT.-OCT. 7, 1901. 14329. EXCHANGE 1 WITH MR. GEORGE G. HEYE, 52 BROADWAY, N.Y.C. MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN CAT. NO. = 2/382."
label: Notes
content: SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO GIGLIOLI, ITALY. 1890.
label: Notes
content: Listed in Fowler and Matley (1979) under Hafted Stone Knives with the following remarks: "There are 20 hafted stone knives (USNM 14329/1-20) in the collection, 19 of which are complete and are illustrated in Figure 56. One of the knives may be shown also in Figure 57 in the hands of its maker. The provenience of the specimens in [sic] Southern Paiute, Southern Utah; probably most specimens are of Kaibab manufacture. The construction of all the implements is similar: stone blades set in a resin matrix in wooden handles. The handles are of cottonwood (Populus fremontii) and willow (Salix sp.) ... With the exception of one obsidian blade (Figure 56t) the blades are of chert or chalcedony.... The two notched blades (Figure 56e, f) resemble Elko-series projectile points found in Great Basin archaeological collections (Fowler, 1968:16)... Some of the knives have been previously illustrated (Wilson, 1890: fig 14; Hoffman, 1896:281, figs. 52, 53)." ppg. 68-69.
label: Notes
content: “Southern Paiute, Southern Utah” is a distinction observed by Fowler and Matley (1979) when specific band identification was not possible. “Southern Paiute. Southern Utah refers in general to the bands that Powell encountered in southern Utah and the Arizona Strip (that portion of present-day Arizona north of the Grand Canyon), i.e., the Kaibab, Uinkarets, Unkakaniguts and Shivwits.” [see: Fowler and Matley (1979), p. 5-6]
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 113 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "History of the Jackknife".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: South, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiute, Southern
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00055
label: USNM Number
content: E14329-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife