Carrying Basket "Keejor" 3
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Feb 1895
name: label: Collector
content: William J. McGee
label: Collector
content: William Dinwiddie
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ONE (1) ILLUS.: HNDBK. OF N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL. 10, SOUTHWEST, FIG. 7, PG. 189." FROM CARD: 174,523A. CARRYING BASKET (KEE-HO). CONSISTING OF FIVE PARTS: FIRST, A FRAMEWORK OF SEHUARA CACTUS STICKS; SECOND, A CORD-LACE NET, CONSTRUCTED OF MAGUEY FIBER TWINE, BOUND TO A WOODEN RING OF MESQUITE STICKS; THIRD, AN OBLONG MAT OF WOVEN YUCCA LEAVES, WHICH RESTS ON THE BACK; FOURTH, A FOREHEAD BAND OF YUCCA LEAVES, PLAITED IN A RING AND FLATTENED, FASTENED TO THE BASKET BY HAIR ROPES TIED TO THE ENDS OF THE HEADBAND, PASSING DOWNWARD TO FRONT SIDE OF THE LOWER POINT, OR APEX OF BASKET, AND FURNISHED WITH A TWISTING PEG, PERMITTING OF LONGER OR SHORTER ADJUSTMENT OF THE HEAD STRAP; AND FIFTH, FOUR HAIR-ROPE TIES, OR STRETCHERS FOR THE NET, ONE TIED ON EACH STICK, PASSED UNDER THE NETRING AND DRAWN TAUT. THE NET IS COLORED AFTER IT IS FINISHED, IN RED AND BLUE DESINGS LAID ON BY SOFT PITHY STOCKS OF PLANTS. THE TIE ROPES ARE OFTEN MADE OF HUMAN HAIR. PAPAGO INDIANS, PIMA CO., ARIZONA, 1894. 174,523. COLLECTED W J MCGEE AND WM. DINWIDDIE. WHEN THE BASKET IS IN POSITION FOR CARRYING, THE MAJOR PORTION OF THE LOAD RESTS ON THE BACK, THE HEAD AND NECK TAKING LITTLE OF THE WEIGHT." CONT. SEE CARD.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, San Xavier Reservation / Pima County, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Papago (Tohono O'odham)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029025
label: USNM Number
content: E174523-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket