Basket and lid
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Nov 2019
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Originally thought to have been made by people from the Klamath River region (Hupa, Yurok, or Karok) of northern California, later identified (by Margaret S Mathewson from Oregon State) as from the Siletz Reservation in coastal Oregon and from the turn of the century or late 1880s.
label: Notes
content: Large, barrel-shaped basket with lid, probably a storage basket. Diagonal or 3-strand twined base with single-twined body. Two horizontal bands of white grass overlay with black triangles of maidenhair fern stem. Row of openwork just below rim, where pairs of warp elements have been crossed to form decorative x's. Two rows of single twining at the rim. The lid is bowl shaped, with one horizontal band of overlay matching that of the basket.
label: Notes
content: The Confederated Tribes of Siletz include Clatsop, Chinook, Klickitat, Molala, Kalapuya, Tillamook, Alsea, Siuslaw/Lower Umpqua, Coos, Coquelle, Upper Umpqua, Tututni, Chetco, Tolowa, Takelma, Galice/Applegate, and Shasta.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oregon (not certain) / California (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Siletz (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2084023
label: USNM Number
content: E423982-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket / Lid
physicalDescription: label: Height - Basket
content: 34 cm
label: Maximum Diameter - Basket
content: 26 cm
label: Maximum Height - Basket Lid
content: 8 cm
label: Maximum Diameter - Basket Lid
content: 25 cm