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 CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS, AND DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, CAREX (?)." 203,359 A. BASKET JAR OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, A SPECIES OF 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. THE ORNAMENTATION IS IN FORM OF THREE SPIRALS, EACH CONSISTING OF A SERIES OF OVERLAPPING GEOMETRICAL FIGURES. EACH SPIRAL PASSES MORE THAN ONCE AROUND THE ENTIRE BASKET. DIAMETER, 6 3/4 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1897. 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: E203359-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 17.14 cm