Instrument For Kindling Fire (Whu-Tu-Ni-Meap)
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: "11976-82. 11977 PEABODY MUS. 11982 LEIDEN MUS. MAY, 99. NO.11981; EXCHANGE-MR. J. D. E. SMELTER LEIDEN MUSEUM LEIDEN HOLLAND, MAY-,1899. #11976 - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; FIG. 8; P. 539; AND IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 73, ART. 14; FIG. 8; P. 16. 11978, 11979, 11976, INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: "Hearth of cottonwood (Populus fremontii), drill missing....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. 74.
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Feb 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Southern, 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: 002357
label: USNM Number
content: E11979-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Set