Decorated Chitimacha cane mat measuring 7'11 1/2" x 5'10"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.74903
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957
culture: label: Culture
content: Chitimacha
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1911
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Published as Plate 31 in John R. Swanton, "Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent Coast of the Gulf of Mexico," Bureau of American Ethnology-Bulletin 43, 1911. Caption below plate identifies subject, provenance and possibly photographer.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Location of mat in 1911 was the George G. Heye collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Different view of this mat is shown in Bureau of American Ethnology-Bulletin 137 as Plate 76; figure 1.