Mush Bowl
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 CIKO, THE PREPARED ROOT OF SALIX SITCHENSIS AND MULE, THE BARK OF SHOOTS OF CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS. WEAVE CALLED TI PI KA." 203,324 A. BASKET BOWL OF THE YOMATC INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS). THE SURFACE IS ENTIRELY COVERED WITH A STYLE OF TWINED WEAVING CALLED TI. ON THE INSIDE THE TEXTURE IS PLAIN TWINED WEAVING. ON THE OUTSIDE AN ADDITIONAL WARP STEM OR ROOT IS CAUGHT AND INCLOSED INSIDE THE STITCHES OF THE TWINE, SO THAT THE SURFACE RESEMBLES IN SOME DEGREE THAT OF COILED BASKETRY. THE INSERTION OF THIS EXTRA ROD RENDERS THE BODY OF THE BASKET VERY STRONG. THE BANDS OF ORNAMENT ON THE BODY ARE PRODUCED BY MEANS OF SPLIT SHOOTS OF REDBUD, WHICH ARE BROWN ON THE OUTSIDE AND WOOD COLOR ON THE INSIDE. THE BORDER IS FINISHED IN ONE ROW OF THREE-PLY TWINE. DIAMETER, 8 1/2 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1889. 203,324.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mendocino County / Russian River, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pomo, Yomatch
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: E203324-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 21.6 cm