Basket Mortar
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: "MADE OF THE PREPARED ROOT OF CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS AND THE BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS, OAK RIM." FROM CARD: "203,299 A. BASKET HOPPER FOR ACORN MORTAR OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), WITH GEOMETRIC PATTERNS PRODUCED BY MEANS OF THE BROWN BARK AND THE INNER WOOD OF REDBUD STEMS. BODY, IN PLAIN TWINED WEAVING WITH NARROW BAND IN DIAGONAL TWINE AT THE BOTTOM, STRENGTHENED WITH BANDS OF TI WEAVING, IN WHICH A HORIZONTAL WARP IS INCLOSED IN THE TWINE. BORDER FORMED BY SEWING ON A HOOP OF OAK WITH SPLIT GRAPEVINE. USED FOR GRINDING ACORNS. DIAMETER, 19 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1889. 203,299. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON."
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: E203299-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mortar Hopper
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 48 cm