Basketry
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1920
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Ella F. Hubby
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Ella F. Hubby
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Coiled weave. ... [Shell beads] woven in with basket thread. Feathers: Red - Melanerphes formacivrus [acorn woodpecker]; Black - Lophortyx californicus [Calif. quail]. Wampum [sic, i.e. shell beads] made from shells not used for many years. 15 stitches and 6 coils to the inch. A bowl - Information given me by Miss O'Hara - 'This basket was owned by an old Spanish family in Santa Clara and far antedates the oldest of them.' - A smaller and inferior basket is in the British Museum taken there from California by Sir Francis Drake [who was in California in 1579]. Coiled weave with Olivella biblicata beads and feathers from the Acorn Woodpecker and the Calif. Quail. Very Rare. ..." Cont. ... see card for photo of basket, etc..
label: Notes
content: Per Linda Yamane, Ohlone basketweaver, 5 Nov. 2009, foundation material is peeled shoots of willow, and weaving material is sedge rhizomes, split and peeled.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Costanoan (Ohlone)
label: Culture
content: Ohlone
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 064687
label: USNM Number
content: E313234-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 36 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 13 cm