Bird Cage
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Feb 1895
name: label: Collector
content: William J. McGee
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "174,522; 174,522B; 174,522C; 174,522D; 174,522F; 174,522G; 174,522I; 174,522J. FROM CARD: "174,522B. THE KEE.-A DOME-SHAPED GRASS HOUSE, ... STILL THE MOST COMMON STYLE OF PAPAGO ARCHITECTURE IN THE INDIAN VILLAGES OF TO-DAY. IN THE INITIAL STEPS OF CONSTRUCTION A CIRCLE IS LAID OUT ON THE GROUND WITH A ROPE OR LARIAT, AND TWELVE EQUIDISTANT CIRCUMFERENTIAL HOLES ARE DUG A FEW INCHES DEEP; IN THESE HOLES ARE PLACED UPRIGHT SAPLINGS OF MESQUITE WOOD, OF SUFFICIENT LENGTH TO OVERLAP SEVERAL FEET, WHEN BOWED. DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE SAPLINGS ARE BOWED AND SECURELY TIED TOGETHER WITH YUCCA-PALM TIES; THE TWO SAPLINGS ON EITHER SIDE THE FIRST BOW ARE TREATED IN THE SAME MANNER AS THE FIRST, WITH A SLIGHTLY LOWER BOW TO PRODUCE THE ROUNDED TOP, FORMING THREE PARALLEL CURVES. THE OTHER THREE PAIRS OF UPRIGHTS ARE SIMILARLY BENT AND FASTENED, BUT AT RIGHT ANGELS TO THE FIRST THREE. AROUND THIS CAGE OF UPRIGHT BOWS ARE BENT AND LASHED HORIZONTALLY FROM THREE TO SIX POLES, THE LOWER ONE NOT BEING CARRIED COMPLETELY AROUND, BUT LEFT OPEN BETWEEN ONE PAIR OF UPRIGHTS TO FORM THE DOORWAY. THIS LIGHT WOODEN-CAGE SUPERSTRUCTURE IS OF GREAT STRENGTH AND."CONT. SEE CARDS.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fresnal, Pima County, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Papago (Tohono O'odham)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029025
label: USNM Number
content: E174522-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cage