Dowry Basket
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 BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." FROM CARD: "203,391 A. BASKET JAR OF THE TAO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), IN A STYLE OF COILED SEWING CALLED TSAI, IN WHICH A SINGLE ROD CONSTITUTES THE WARP. THE SEWING PASSES OVER THIS ROD, UNDER THE PRECEDING ONE, AND LOCKS IN THE STITCHIMMEDIATELY UNDERNEATH. ORNAMENTATION, NEAR THE BOTTOM SMALL PATCHES OF RECTANGLES, AND ON THE SIDES, OF TRIANGLES, IN GROUPS OF THREES; THE MARGIN AND BORDER OF BROWN, WITH TRIANGULAR PROJECTIONS IN GROUPS OF FOURS, AND FOUR SHORT LINES OF SHELL BEADS. CALLED A DOWRY BASKET BECAUSE THE MOTHER OF THE BRIDE WEAVES IT FOR HER DAUGHTER, AND THE GROOM IS OBLIGED TO FILL IT WITH CAKES FOR THE GUESTS ON THE OCCASION OF THE WEDDING. DIAMETER, 13 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1890. 203,391."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Dec 2017
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: E203391-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 33 cm