Bowl For Washing Snails And Worms 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: "MADE OF THE PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, SALIX HINDSIANA. USED FOR WASHING SNAILS AND WORNS." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BOWL FOR WASHING SNAILS, FROM THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE, IN TWINED WEAVING, FROM THE PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINDSIANA), AS FOLLOWS: THE FIRST INCH OF THE BOTTOM IS IN ORDINARY TWINE, THE REMAINDER OF THE BOTTOM IN TWINED OPENWORK, AS IN THE ALEUTIAN ISLAND BASKETRY. THE GLOBULAR BODY IS IN CLOSE-TWINED WEAVING, IN WHICH TWO OR THREE WARP FILAMENTS ARE INCLOSED IN EACH MESH. THE BORDER IS NOT SPECIALLY TREATED, THE ENDS OF THE WARP FILAMENTS BEING CUT OFF SQUARE. USED FOR WASHING SNAILS, FISH WORMS, ETC., FOR MAKING SOUP. DIAMETER, 8 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1890. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON."
label: Notes
content: See p. 62 in Winther, Barbara, 2000, "Yuki and Yuki-style Basketry," American Indian Art Magazine, 25(3). "A twined Pomo basket collected by [John W.] Hudson in 1890 ... has a four-sided twined start, similar to the start on a Yuki coiled basket; it has horsetail root in a patterned band near the rim - a most unusual material on a Pomo piece. [Craig D.] Bates wonders if "this might be a remnant of an old style of basketry, one which died out as Pomo basketry standardized for the market in the 1890s" (1998-1999). Perhaps the use of horsetail root was once more widespread than has been thought."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mendocino County / Russian River, 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: E203256-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 20 cm