Drum Pah-Sook-Pee
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 May 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SHELL, A SECTION OF A HOLLOW IRREGULAR LOG WITH THE BARK REMOVED. TWO HEADS OF RAW HIDE PROBABLY GOAT, STRETCHED OVER THE ENDS OF THE SHELL WITHOUT HOOPS AND LACED WITH A THONG OF RAWHIDE THROUGH HOLES MADE IN THE EDGES OF THE HEADS, BACK AND FORTH. THE END OF THIS THONG IS FORMED INTO A LOOP FOR A HANDLE. ILLUS. IN BULLETIN 136, USNM, PL. 27-A, P. 140. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED FEB 9 1989." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "DRUM (PAH SOOK PE) OF THE HOPI, SHOSHONEAN FAMILY. SHELL, SECTION OF A HOLLOWED LOG; HEADS, OF SKIN, STRETCHED OVER THE ENDS OF THE SHELL AND LACED WITH A RAWHIDE THONG THROUGH HOLES IN THE EDGE. A LOOP IN THE END OF THE THONG FROMS A HANDLE. HEIGHT, 8 1/4 INCHES. TUSAYAN, ARIZONA. 22,478. COLLECTED BY J. W. POWELL."
label: Notes
content: "Province of Tusayan" was an old alternate name for the Hopi Mesas of Northern Arizona, used by John Wesley Powell among others. (See p. 2 in Fowler, Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler. 1969. "John Wesley Powell's Anthropological Fieldwork". Geological Survey Professional Paper 670: John Wesley Powell and the Anthropology of the Canyon Country. U.S. Geological Survey; see also p. 10 of Euler, Robert C. "The Archaeology of the Canyon Country" in the same publication).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northeast / Hopi Mesas, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hopi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 76A00060
label: USNM Number
content: E22478-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 20.95 cm