Basket For Dipping Fish
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 FROM PREPARED ROOT OF CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS. USED FOR DIPPING FISH POISONED BY AMOLE (CHLORGALUM POMERIDIANUM) OR TURKEY MULLEIN (EREMOEAPUS SETIGERUS)." FROM CARD: "203,264 A. BASKET FOR DIPPING FISH OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE STEMS OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), IN OPEN-TWINED WEAVING. A TRAY-SHAPED BASKET USED FOR DIPPING FISH POISONED BY AMOLE (CHLOROGALUM POMERIDIANUM), OR BY TURKEY MULLEIN (EROMOCARPUS SETIGERUS). A WHOLESALE STUPEFACTION OF FISH IS ACCOMPLISHED BY POUNDING THESE SPLINTS AND DROPPING THE POISON INTO THE RIFFLE OF THE POOL. THE FISH CAN THEN BE DIPPED UP BY MEANS OF THIS SPECIMEN. DIAMETER, 32 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA. 1890. 203,264. 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: E203264-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 81 cm