Feast Bowl Basketry
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: "MATERIALS, PREPARED ROOT OF CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS, DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, CAREX (?), THROAT AND SCALP FEATHERS OF KATATC, MELANESPES CAL, CREST OF TCIKAKA, LAPHORTYX CAL., PREPARED SHELLS OF KAYA, SAXIDORMIS GRACILLIS, BEADS." FROM CARD: "203,450 A. BASKET BOWL OF THE CODOKAI INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). COILED WEAVE, BAM-TSU-WU TYPE. MADE FROM ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), WITH ELABORATE GEOMETRIC FIGURES IN DYED SEDGE ROOT. DECORATED WITH TUFTS OF RED FEATHERS FROM THE THROAT AND SCALP OF KATATCH, OR WOODPECKER (MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS), BLACK FEATHERS FROM THE PLUME OF TCHIKAKA, THE CRESTED QUAIL (LOPHORTYX CALIFORNICUS), AND DISKS OF KAYA, OR CLAM SHELL (SAXIDOMUS GRACILIS). USED AS A FOOD BOWL AT FEASTS. DIAMETER, 10 3/4 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA. 203,451. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Dec 2017
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: E203450-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 27.3 cm