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date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: Jun 1841
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: STRAIGHT-SIDED CYLINDRICAL BASKET MADE OF CATTAIL, BEARGRASS AND CEDAR BARK. THE RIM HAS A FALSE BRAID WITH CEDAR ROOT ADDED AND LOOPS OF TWISTED BRANCH (HAZEL?) ALL ROUND. THE BASE HAS A 2/2 TWILL OVERLAID WITH BEARGRASS AND BLACK-DYED CEDAR BARK. THE DESIGN TECHNIQUES INCLUDE OVERLAY, COLOR ALTERATION REVERSE (FULL TWIST OVERLAY) PATTERN ON INSIDE RIM. THE RIM DESIGN HAS ELBOW- LEGGED DOGS. THE BODY DESIGN CONSISTS OF SALMON GILLS IN DIAGONAL ROWS, UP TO LEFT IN BROWN AND BLACK ON WHITE BACKGROUND. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NAUTRAL HISTORY, 1985-86. THIS PEALE NUMBER HAS BEEN ARBITRARILY ASSIGNED TO THIS CATALOGUE NUMBER FOR PURPOSES OF IDENTIFICATION. ILLUS. FIG. 3 & 4, P. 46 IN "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984, AND ID THERE AS SOFT-TWINED BASKET; LOOPS OF TWISTED CEDAR ROOTS AT RIM, TWANA, DECORATED IN OVERLAY WITH DESIGNS OF DOGS IN RIM AREA AND SALMON GILLS IN MAIN FIELD.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oregon Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Twana
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E7572-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 21 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 24 cm