Jar 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 STEMS OF BAM, SALIX HINDSIANA, AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." 203,375 A. BASKET JAR OF THE TAO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINDSIANA), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), IN A STYLE OF COILED SEWING CALLED TSAI, IN WHICH A SINGLE ROD CONSTITUTES THE WARP. THE SEWING PASSES OVER THIS ROD, UNDER THE PRECEDING ONE, AND LOCKS IN THE STITCH IMMEDIATELY UNDERNEATH. ORNAMENTATION, IN THREE SPIRALS, THE ELEMENTS OF WHICH ARE TRIANGLES. THESE SPIRALS ARE ARRANGED IN PAIRS. THE SPACES AMONG THE TRIANGLES ARE PARALLELOGRAMS IN THE NATURAL COLOR OF THE WOOD. DIAMETER, 5 1/2 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1890. 203,375. 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: E203375-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 14 cm