Drill For Making Shell Money
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Stephen Powers
label: Donor Name
content: Stephen Powers
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN NAT. MUS. REPT 1887, FIG. 15, P. 183." OLD EXHIBIT LABEL FOR CAT. #S 21414, 24110, AND 200023 IS FILED WITH CAT. CARD FOR 21414. IT STATES: "PUMP DRILLS OF THE POMO AND EEL RIVER INDIANS. THE DRILL CONSISTS OF A LONG WOODEN SHAFT AND WHORL OF LEATHER OR WOOD. A VERTICAL HAND REST IS PIERCED FOR INSERTING THE SHAFT, AND ATTACHED BY ITS ENDS TO A THONG, WHICH PASSES UP OVER THE END OF THE SHAFT. WHEN THE OPERATOR MOVES HIS HAND UP AND DOWN THE THONG WINDS AND UNWINDS UPON THE SHAFT AND PRODUCES A RECIPROCATING MOTION OF THE DRILL. DRILL POINT OF STEEL OR OF CHIPPED STONE. THE CALIFORNIA INDIANS MAKE THEIR SHELL MONEY FROM THE SAXIDOMUS NUTTALII ..." SOMEONE, APPARENTLY BASED ON THIS EXHIBIT LABEL, HAS PENCILLED IN POMO AS TRIBE FOR 21414, HOWEVER, 200023 IS THE POMO OBJECT AND ACCESSION RECORD CLEARLY IDENTIFIES 21414 AS HUCHNOM, SOUTH EEL RIVER. - F. PICKERING 5-21-1999
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Mar 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Mendocino County (not certain) / South Eel River, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Huchnom
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: E21414-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drill