Mush Bowl
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: "#11867: MADE FROM THE SPLIT WILLOW COILED OVER BUNCHES OF SMALL TWIGS. IN SOME EXAMPLES THE WORK IS DONE CARELESSLY, THE FILAMENTS PIERCING AND DIVIDING THE STITCHES OF PRECEDING COIL; IN OTHERS, THE SEWING IS SO CAREFULLY LAID ON THAT IT REPRESENTS A UNIFORM SURFACE AND IN NO CASE DOES ONE STITCH INTERFERE WITH ANOTHER." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD # E11276: "COILED BASKET BOWLS OF THE UTE INDIANS (SHOSHONEAN STOCK). MADE FROM SPLIT WILLOW, COILED OVER BUNCHES OF SMALL TWIGS. IN SOME EXAMPLES THE WORK IS DONE CARELESSLY, THE FILAMENTS PIERCING AND DIVIDING THE STITCHES OF THE PRECEDING COIL; IN OTHERS, THE SEWING IS SO CAREFULLY LAID ON THAT IT PRESENTS A UNIFORM SURFACE AND IN NO CASE DOES ONE STITCH INTERFERE WITH ANOTHER. UTAH. 1,876; 11,276; 11,863 1/2; 11,867 1/2; 14,712-14,739. COLLECTED BY MAJOR J. W. POWELL."
label: Notes
content: Fowler and Matley (1979) list two items with catalog number 11867: 11867/1 (a winnowing tray) and 11867/2 (a bowl). Item # 11867/2 is illustrated in Fig. 8o, p. 113. Item # 11867/1 is illustrated in Figure 3d, p. 108, and on p. 14 it is noted about it: "Very similar to specimen, USNM 11857, illustrated by Mason (1904:494, fig 186). May be same specimen."
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Southern, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiute, Southern, Uinkaret
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: E11867-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket