Cedar Bark Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. R. P. Robinson
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: CEDAR BARK BLANKET WITH A SINGLE TWIST RAWHIDE FINISH ALONG TOP, AND TWO DOUBLE CORDS FOR TYING. THIS MAY HAVE ONCE HAVE BEEN AN OTTER FUR TRIM. SINGLE-PAIR (3 WARPS) EDGE, & SINGLE-PAIR TWINE WEFT. MARKS: HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG, ANOTHER TAG READS, "U.S. EX EX COLLECTED BY R.P. ROBINSON".
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. FIG. 20, P. 16 IN A GUIDE TO WEFT TWINING BY DAVID W. FRASER. PHILADELPHIA: UNIVERSITY OF PENN. PRESS, 1989."
label: Notes
content: Catalogue card identifies this as Shasta, but Peale catalogue entry under # 315 lists 315-318 as "Dresses worn by the women of the Classet tribe of natives, Northwest Coast of America, they are made of bark."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Mar 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oregon Territory (not certain) / Washington Territory (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Shasta (?)
label: Culture
content: Makah, Classet (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2930-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 113 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 163 cm