Basketry Hat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs J. Frohman
label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: Hat has a partial original tag which says "Mrs. Froh..., Pacific ... , 13 & Washi...". This is presumably "Mrs. Frohman". On p. 542 of Mason, Otis T., and Frederick V. Coville. 1904. Aboriginal American basketry: studies in a textile art without machinery. Washington: Govt. Print. Off. https://archive.org/details/aboriginalbasket00masorich , there is listed a Mrs. J. Frohman of Portland, Oregon, who is identified as having a collection of West Coast basketry and matting. She and her collection are also mentioned starting p. 259 in James, George Wharton. 1909. Indian basketry, and How to make Indian and other baskets. New York: Malkan. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3599575;view=1up;seq=265 ; a number of her baskets are also illustrated in this publication. On pp. 73 - 74 of Wray, Jacilee. 2012. From the hands of a weaver: Olympic Peninsula basketry through time. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10828042, Mrs. Frohman is mentioned as a basket collector, and it is also noted: "The Frohman Trading Company published a catalog [in 1902 etc.] offering "Alaska, California, and Northern Indian Baskets and Curios” for sale to both a wholesale and retail market." While a number of the above references refer to her as Mrs. J. Frohman, she is assumed to be the same person as the one listed on p. 36 in American Society of Curio Collectors. 1902 Yearbook where there is an entry under "Collectors of Indian Baskets" for "Mrs. I. Frohman, corner Thirteenth and Washington streets, Portland, Ore." See also "A Business Woman In Japan" in The sun. (New York [N.Y.]), 03 Dec. 1911. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1911-12-03/ed-1/seq-21/ .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Jan 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E360685-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat