Seed Huller Or Roaster Basket
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; AND THE BARK OF SHOOTS OF CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS. LABEL: "BASKET TRAY OF THE TABATE INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS). THE BODY IS IN A SERIES OF TWINED WEAVING CALLED TI, IN WHICH AN ADDITIONAL ROD IS INSERTED IN THE TWINE ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE TRAY, THE INSIDE BEING IN PLAIN TWINED WEAVING. AT THE BOTTOM IS A NARROW BAND OF THREE-PLY PLAITED WEAVING CALLED TSAWAM. ORNAMENTAL BANDS OF GEOMETRIC FIGURES ARE PRODUCED BY MEANS OF REDBUD STEMS. IN THE OUTER BAND ONE-HALF OF THE FILAMENTS IN THE BROWN FIGURES ARE TURNED WITH THE WHITE SIDE OUT, SO THAT THE FIGURES ARE BANDED ON THE OUTSIDE AND SOLID BROWN ON THE INSIDE. USED IN CLEANING SEEDS. HOT STONES ARE PLACED IN THE TRAY WITH THE GATHERED SEEDS, THE CHAFF IS BURNT AND THE SEEDS ARE ROASTED READY TO BE GROUND AND MADE INTO BREAD."
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: E203330-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket