Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Jun 1912
label: Collection Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Gen. Timothy E. Wilcox
label: Donor Name
content: Gen. Timothy E. Wilcox
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Information for this catalog number was left off of the ledger and no card was originally made for it. This card was created 3/11/85 with the approval of Dr. Bill Merrill. Records show only 1 accession for T. E. Wilcox and though this cat. number is not in the same series of numbers it may be part of the same accession."
label: Notes
content: When the card was created in 1985 the culture as attributed as Yuma, based on the old tag with the artifact, and the accession number was tentatively listed as 112196. However, this seems to be an error. The accession number is actually 54202 and the accession record identifies this basket as: "1 basket captured from the Sheepeaters Shoshonean name Tukuarika by Gen. Wilcox in 1879 - on Big Creek a branch of Middle Salmon river in Northern Idaho. ...". Tukuarika is another name for the Tukudeka, now part of the Northern Shoshone.
label: Notes
content: Per Gayle Dixon, most Shoshone baskets were made of willow (Salix spp.), though red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea) was also used. Rods in body of this basket and in the wrapped rim appear to be all willow.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Jan 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Valley County / Big Creek (tributary of Middle Fork of Salmon River), Idaho, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Shoshone, Northern, Tukudeka
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 054202
label: USNM Number
content: E272223-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket