Fancy Jar Basketry
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 DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, CAREX (?)." FROM CARD: "203,396 A. OBLONG BASKET JAR OF THE YOKAIA INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), AND DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, A CAREX, OR SEDGE, IN A STYLE OF COILED SEWING CALLED TSAI, IN WHICH A SINGLE ROD CONSTITUTES THE WARP. THE SEWING PASSES OVER THIS ROD AND UNDER THE PRECEDING ONE, LOCKING IN THE STITCH IMMEDIATELY UNDERNEATH. ORNAMENTATION, ON A FLAT BOTTOM, TWO LINES MADE UP OF RHOMBS; AROUND THE BORDER OF THE BOTTOM, ONE LINE OF RHOMBS FINISHED OFF AT THEENDS WITH A PLAIN BAND IN BLACK; A BAND OF RHOMBS AROUND THE BODY, THE UPPER MARGIN FINISHED OFF WITH A ROW OF TINY TRIANGLES. DIAMETER, 4 1/2 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1897. 203,396. 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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035435
label: USNM Number
content: E203396-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 11.4 cm