Guest's Platter 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 STEMS OF BAM, SALIX HINDSIANA, AND BARK OF SHOOTS-MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS. BASKET MADE BY JOSEPPA DICK PER BRIAN BIBBY 3-6-1995." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "203,339 COILED BASKET TRAY OF THE YOKAIA INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINDSIANA), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), IN A STYLE OF SEWING CALLED TSAI. A SINGLE ROD OR STEM OF WILLOW CONSTITUTES THE COIL. IN THE SEWING THE SPLINT PASSES OVER THE ROD, UNDER THE ROD OF THE PRECEDING COIL, AND IS LOCKED IN ITS STITCHES. THE BROWN GEOMETRICAL FIGURES ON THE SURFACE ARE PRODUCED BY USING SPLINTS OF REDBUD. USED IN PRESENTING FOOD TO GUESTS. DIAMETER, 18 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1894. 203,339. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON."
label: Notes
content: Attributed to Joseppa Dick by Sally McLendon. See McLendon, Sally, 1981, "Preparing Museum Collections for Use as Primary Data in Ethnographic Research," In: The Research Potential of Anthropological Museum Collections. Anne-Marie E. Cantwell, James B. Griffin, and Nan A. Rothschild, eds. Annals Of The New York Academy of Sciences, 376:201-227. New York: The New York Academy of Sciences.
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: E203339-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 46 cm