Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Oct 1967
name: label: Donor Name
content: Smithsonian Institution
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Square top twill—plaited of thin grass strips with braided rims."
label: Notes
content: The basket currently tracked with this number does not match the description on the card exactly. There is no cover/lid, and the measurements are incorrect (21 x 21 cm on the card, vs. 17 cm x 13 cm on this basket). However, the description (square top, twill, thin grass strips, braided rim) is otherwise accurate. In any case, the basket probably had an older catalog number, since this is part of a "found in collection" accession. It is a black, square-bottomed basket about 17 cm (7 inches) in diameter at the rim, and 12.5 cm (5 inches) tall. It is numbered 408911. It also has an older number on the bottom edge that has been written over, and now reads 235 (or 8) 0 (or 9) 08 (or 6). E235008 is the only combination of those numbers that is a possible match. E235008 is a hat / basket from the Philippines, measuring 7 x 5 inches, and it is otherwise missing from the collection. The ledger book does not include any description for 235008 (besides measurements), making a definitive match difficult.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 275298
label: USNM Number
content: E408911-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket