FROM CARD: "14668-75. FOR CARRYING BURDENS AND SEEDS." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HARVESTING IMPLEMENTS OF THE PAI UTE INDIANS (SHOSHONEAN STOCK). CONSISTING OF A FAN MADE IN THE FORM OF A SPOON, OF TWIGS OR RODS LAID SIDE BY SIDE AND HELD TOGETHER BY A VERY LOOSE TWINED WEAVING. GATHERING BASKET, CONICAL IN FORM, CONSISTING OF TWIGS FOR WARP AND OF WEFT IN TWINED WEAVING WITH SPLIT TWIGS. ROASTING TRAY IN FORM OF A SCOOP, ALSO IN TWINED WEAVING. THE UTE WOMEN SET THE CONICAL BASKET ON THE GROUND IN FRONT OF RIPE GRASSES AND BEAT THE SEEDS AND CHAFF INTO THE CARRYING BASKET. AFTERWARDS SHE ROASTS THE SEED AND BURNS THE CHAFF WITH HOT STONES IN THE ROASTING TRAY. THEN THE SEEDS ARE GROUND ON A STONE MORTAR AND MADE INTO MUSH OR BREAD. UTAH. 14,668-75. COLLECTED BY MAJOR J. W. POWELL."
Illustrated in Fowler and Matley (1979) (Figure 14a)
