Bone Implement
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
label: Collection Date
content: 1875 to 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Stephen Powers
label: Donor Name
content: Stephen Powers
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM THE ACCESSION FILE, "LIST OF ARTICLES COLLECTED FROM THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA, IN 1875 AND 1876, BY STEPHEN POWERS": "19639, 'MOOKASSL,' PUNCH FOR MAKING ARROWHEADS; A PIECE OF BUCKHORN ABOUT 5 INCHES LONG FIRMLY LASHED TO A HANDLE OF WOOD ABOUT 20 INCHES LONG. THIS PUNCH IS HELD UNDER THE RIGHT ARM AND WORKED WITH THE RIGHT HAND ON THE FLINT, WHICH IS HELD IN THE LEFT HAND. THE MOTION IS SIMPLY ONE OF PUSHING, THE FLINT BEING REVERSED OCCASIONALLY, WHICH CAUSES IT TO BE WROUGHT AWAY SYMMETRICALLY." ... PROVENIENCE NOTE: THE ABOVE IS ON THE PART OF THE LIST UNDER THE SUBHEADING OF "WASHOES, RENO, NEVADA." ... FROM CARD: FOR MAKING ARROWHEADS. SLENDER, POINTED BONE BOUND BY RAWHIDE THONG TO LONG, SLENDER SHAFT OF WOOD.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Washoe
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004856
label: USNM Number
content: E19639-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pressure Flaker