Album 3: "Baskets, Ceremonial and etc."
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Department of Anthropology
label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology
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content: Department of Anthropology records
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content: Department of Anthropology records / Series 22: Photographs of Specimens and Other Subjects (Processing Laboratory Photographs) / 22.1: Albums
container: label: Container
content: Box 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 298 cyanotypes. "Basketry" has been broadly defined to include woven items, cord, looms, weft beaters, pottery shards with woven impressions/ decorations, and macrame. Many of the baskets have been published in Mason, "Aboriginal American Basketry: Studies in a Textile Art without Machines," USNM-AR 1902. Ceremonial items include religious objects, masks, etc.

Culture areas include North America (Indian & Eskimo), Europe (?), and Asia (including Tibet and Japan?).

Items shown include baskets; pottery; furniture; looms & weaving and spinning implements; kites; coverlets & rugs; decorated items (beadwork, quillwork, etc.); tools and weapons; game pieces (?); models & drawing of buildings; sculpture; jewelry; small containers; religious objects; game pieces; corn; and miscellaneous other items.