Twined Baskets
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Dec 1899
label: Collection Date
content: 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Marcus Benjamin
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. C. G. Benjamin
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "YELLOW PORCUPINE QUILLS DYED WITH A LICHEN, EVERNIA VULPINA; BLACK-TULE STEMS DYED IN MUD SPRINGS OR WITH NAILS IN WATER; GRASS WARP-TWISTED TUBES NOT DYED. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT. 1902; PL. 66; P. 548 (1 ONLY). 204,258 IN: O.T. MASON, "ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY", U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM REPORT, 1902, THESE TWO BASKETS ARE SHOWN IN PLATE 167, THE TWO UPPER FIGURES, AND ARE DISCUSSED ON PAGE 438 WHERE THERE ARE THE FOLLOWING 3 INCORRECT STATEMENTS.: 1.NOS. ARE GIVEN AS 204,258 AND 9 WHEN THEY BOTH SHOULD BE '58. 2. THEY ARE CALLED MODOC WITHOUT ANY BASIS FOR CHANGING THE IDENTIFICATION FROM THAT WHICH IS IN THE MUSEUM'S ORIGINAL CATALOG BOOK. MODOC AND KLAMATH SPECIMENS OF THIS TYPE ARE VERY SIMILAR, THEY MAY NOT BE DISTINGUISHABLE, EXCEPT BY COLLECTION DATA. 3. THE YELLOW DECORATIVE PATTERNS ARE SAID TO BE MADE OF BIRD QUILL, WHEN THE MATERIAL IS ACTUALLY PORCUPINE QUILL, AS DETERMINED NEGATIVELY BY DRS. ALEX. WETMORE, AND FRIEDMAN OF THE DIVISION OF BIRDS, AND POSITIVELY BY THE DIVISION OF ETHNOLOGY BY COMPARISON WITH ACTUAL PORCUPINE QUILLS, IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE FINE POINTED ENDS, GENERAL FORM, ETC. IF THEY HAD BEEN BIRD, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN SCRAPED AND THESE HAVE NOT BEEN SO TREATED. THESE CORRECTIONS HAVE BEEN NOTED IN NOV. 1955 BY R. ELDER IN CONNECTION WITH A LETTER FROM MRS. EDITH MCLEOD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON WHO HAS A COLLECTION FROM THESE 2 TRIBES OF SOME 800 BASKETS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Oregon (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Klamath
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035912
label: USNM Number
content: E204258-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket