Horn Spoon
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: "14455-64. INVENTORIED 1975. 14455 ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 11, GREAT BASIN, FIG. 10A, PG. 382."
label: Notes
content: Listed as a "Ladle" and illustrated (Figure 71d) in Fowler and Matley (1979) with the following remarks: "All [ladles] are made of a single piece of wood; some are formed by carving out a knot to form the bowl and leaving a protruding branch to form a handle. Others are carved out from a larger straight piece of wood. Materials are pinyon, juniper, and cottonwood... Provenience: Kaibab Southern Paiute, USNM 10745, 10746, 11232, 14455." p. 76. Since 14455 is a horn spoon, not wood (see below), it is possible that the entry describing it as wood is mixing up E14453, a wooden spoon/ladle with E14455, a horn spoon? Also listed (as USNM 144455 -- evidently a typographical error) under Horn Spoons: "There are thirteen large spoons or dippers in the collection, all made of mountain sheep horn (Ovis canadensis)...Provenience:....'Paiute': USNM 144455 [sic], 14458." Fowler and Matley (1979)
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: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Jun 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, Kaibab
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00055
label: USNM Number
content: E14455-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spoon