Horn Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Oct 1938
name: label: Donor Name
content: Miss Alice Vandenberg
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Made of mountain sheep or mountain goat horn. Decorated with carved geometric designs. The horns are boiled until soft and the bowl formed by placing the horn over the spherical stone and allowed to cool. When set the carving is added." Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 12, Plateau, Fig. 7, p. 368.
label: Notes
content: Pamela Cardenas, Shayleen Macy and Valerie Switzler of the Wasco delegation from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs made these comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit Aug 31-Sept 4, 2015. For the Wasco, the cup or bowl is the center of the culture, it is what our stories are based off. Our creation stories are based off coming out of a spring that was shaped like a bowl. These objects are unique to our tribe because it represents us. We don't differentiate between a cup, ladle/spoon, or bowl. Shayleen noted that it is interesting how the Wasco don't make the designs anymore, the simple zigzags, triangles and chevrons. This horn bowl work hasn't been carried into the contemporary. You used to see these all around, everyone had them, but not anymore. Mountain sheep is 'kakwiq' or 'kakwik' in Kiksht. There are still mountain sheep around, they live in the mountains along the Columbia River, but that's not where our reservation is. You can see the sheep from the mountains, we can hunt them because it is ceded land. Our ceded land runs from Mount Hood to Multnomah Falls. Kiksht is the language of the Wasco tribe.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Washington, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Wishram
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 149719
label: USNM Number
content: E379264-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl