Fancy Jar Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Aug 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. John W. Hudson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MATERIALS, PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, CAREX MENDOCINOENSIS, AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." FROM CARD: "203,395 A. OBLONG BASKET JAR OF THE CANEL INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), IN A STYLE OF COILED SEWING CALLED TSAI, IN WHICH A SINGLE ROD CONSTITUTES THE WARP. THE SEWING PASSES OVER THIS ROD, UNDER THE PRECEDING ONE, AND LOCKS IN THE STITCH IMMEDIATELY UNDERNEATH. ORNAMENTATION, THE SURFACE COVERED WITH VERTICAL ROWS OF TRIANGLES IN BROWN REDBUD, THE TRIANGLES INCREASING AND DECREASING IN BREADTH TO FIT THE SHAPE OF THE VESSEL. DIAMETER, 11 1/2 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1892. 203,395. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pomo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035435
label: USNM Number
content: E203395-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 29.2 cm