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 DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, CAREX (?)." FROM CARD: "203,389 A. BASKET BOWL OF THE YOMATCH INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, A CAREX, OR SEDGE, IN A STYLE OF COILED SEWING CALLED TSAI, IN WHICH A SINGLE ROD CONSTITUTES THE FOUNDATION COIL. THE SEWING PASSES OVER THIS ROD, UNDER THE PRECEDING ONE, AND LOCKS IN THE STITCH IMMEDIATELY UNDERNEATH. ORNAMENTATION, IN BLACK ROOT, CONSISTS OF THREE SPIRALS MADE UP OF FIGURES ALL ALIKE, IN WHICH TO A RHOMBOIDAL BODY ARE ATTACHED WHAT SEEM TO BE NECK AND HEAD OF AN ANIMAL. 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, 15 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1889. 203,389. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY."
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: E203389-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 38 cm