Basketry Tray
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 1981
name: label: Collector
content: N/A
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Marjorie M. Post
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "COILED, OVAL, SHALLOW BASKET WITH GEOMETRIC DESIGNS IN ANILINE DYED RED, MAROON, BLACK & GREEN; NARROW ENDS HAVE LAST 2 COILS BOUND OFF TO FORM HANDLES." THIS BASKET WAS ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS WESTERN APACHE (?), HOWEVER MARGARET MATHEWSON SAYS IT IS NOT NORTH AMERICAN, MATERIAL IS PROBABLY PALM AND IT MAY BE ASIAN, MEXICAN OR SOUTH AMERICAN. JOALLYN ARCHAMBAULT AND CANDACE GREENE CONCUR THAT IT IS NOT NORTH AMERICAN. MARY JO ARNOLDI SAYS IT IS DEFINITELY NOT AFRICAN. IT IS KNOWN THAT PALM BASKETS SIMILAR TO THIS ARE MADE IN PAKISTAN FOR THE DECORATOR MARKET SO FOR NOW BASKET IS BEING STORED AS ASIAN. - F. PICKERING 2-28-2001
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mexico (not certain), Asia (not certain) / South America (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 318782
label: USNM Number
content: E418894A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket