Bread Platter 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: "MADE FROM THE PREPARED ITEMS OF BAM, SALIX HINDSIANA AND THE BARK OF SHOOTS OF MU-LI, CERUS OCCIDENTALIS. UNFINISHED EDGE." FROM CARD: "203,272 A. BREAD PLATTER OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). WARP OF THE STEMS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINDSIANA), AND WEFT OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS). THE TEXTURE IS IN SINGLE-TWINED WEAVING, STRENGTHENED WITH RINGS OF TI WEAVING, IN WHICH THE TWINE IS REENFORCED BY THE INSERTION OF A COILED STEM. ORNAMENTS ARE PRODUCED BY SHOWING ALTERNATELY THE BARK AND THE WOODY SIDE OF THE SPLINTS. SHALLOW BOWLS USED FOR HOLDING BREAD. DIAMETER, 17 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1890. 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: E203272-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 43 cm