Rush Mat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Rudolph Mueller
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BEIGE WOVEN RUSH MAT WITH ZIG-ZAG DESIGNS OF BROWN AND GOLD WOVEN TO FORM DIAMONDS. MAT IS IN TWO PIECES, HAVING BEEN CUT ROUGHLY IN HALF. *EDGES ARE FINISHED ON ORIGINAL FOUR SIDES. SEVERAL SMALL TACKS WERE FOUND ROLLED IN WITH THE MAT AND STUCK THROUGH IT. LHC 8/77 *THE TWO CUT EDGES DO NOT FIT TOGETHER, PERHAPS INDICATING A THIRD, MISSING PIECE? 109 BY ABOUT 68 CM (B) 109 BY ABOUT 75 CM (C) FOUND, IN A SEPARATE BUNDLE TAGGED "NO NO./?CHIPPEWA." THE REMAINING TWO SECTIONS OF THIS MAT--THE ROUGHLY CUT EDGES FIT EXACTLY WITH THE CUT EDGES OF THE FIRST TWO PIECES. ORIGINALLY THE MAT WAS ABOUT 386 CM LONG AND 109 CM SIDE. ITS FOUR PIECES HAVE NOW BEEN NUMBERED 20000A, B, C, AND D. LHC 8/77 INVENTORIED 1977."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Carthagena, Mercer County, Ohio, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004734
label: USNM Number
content: E20000-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat