Feathered 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 KAHUM, CAREX MENDOCINOENSIS [basketry sedge]; BREAST FEATHERS OF JUCIL, STURNELLA NEGLECTA [meadow lark]; SCALP FEATHERS OF KAYAN, ANAS BORCHAS [presumably Anas boschas - mallard duck]; THROAT AND SCALP FEATHERS OF KATATC MELANESPES CAL [i.e. katatch, presumably Melanerpes, one of the California woodpeckers, perhaps the California Acorn woodpecker, Melanerpes formicivorus bairdi?]; ELBOW FEATHERS OF TSULIA, AGELAUIS GUBERNATUR [presumably Agelaius phoeniceus gubernator, the bicolored blackbird], AND PREPARED SHELL OF KAYA, SAXIDORMIS GRACILIS [presumably Saxidomus gracilis, clam shell disc beads]." Basket made by 3-rod coiling technique, per Dr. Sally McLendon. Object also has glass beads and abalone shell pendants. - F. Pickering
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: E203472-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket