Unfired Clay Figurines, Toys
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Dec 1872
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975. HORSE AND BUFFALO ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 11, GREAT BASIN, FIG. 10, PG. 236. HUMAN FIGURES AND BOWL OR BASKET ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 11, GREAT BASIN, FIG. 9C-F,H, PG. 381."
label: Notes
content: Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies as Paiute, Southern Utah.
label: Notes
content: Described and illustrated (Figure 82) in Fowler and Matley (1979) with the following remarks: "There are sixteen unfired clay figurines in the collection, listed by Powell as 'toys; baked [sic], clay images.' Fourteen of the figurines are anthropomorphic with short limbs and pinched, featureless heads. ... The other two figurines are of a bison (Figure 68d) and a horse (not illustrated) with a Mexican style saddle. ... Provenience: The anthropomorphic figures are apparently Kaibab Southern Paiute, the horse and bison figures are probably Uintah Ute. Kelly (1964:119, pl.4h-j) describes and illustrates unfired 'clay dolls' of essentially the same form as the Powell specimens. Drucker (1941:109) reports for the Shivwitz Southern Paiute that both human and animal-form unfired clay dolls of figurines were made by children. Similarly, Stewart (1942:273) reports the manufacture of 'unbaked-clay effigies for children.' Steward's (1941:243) data indicate similar figurines were widely made throughout the Great Basin Numic area." p. 84
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Jan 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 26
place: label: Place
content: Southern, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiute, Southern, Kaibab
label: Culture
content: Ute (Nuche), Northern, Uintah
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002357
label: USNM Number
content: E11297-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure