Platter For Guests Basketry
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: "MADE FROM MULE, THE BARK OF THE SHOOTS OF CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." FROM CARD: "203,274 A. FOOD PLATTER OF THE CODOKAI INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). WARP OF WILLOW AND WEFT OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS). THE TEXTURE IS IN SINGLE-TWINED WEAVING, STRENGTHENED WITH RINGS OF TI WEAVING, IN WHICH THE TWINE IS REENFORCED BY THE INSERTION OF A COILED STEM. ORNAMENTATION PRODUCED BY EXPOSING ALTERNATELY THE BARK AND THE WOODY SIDE OF THE SPLINTS. BORDER, UNFINISHED. A SHALLOW BOWL OR PLATTER USED IN PRESENTING FOOD TO GUEST. DIAMETER, 15 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1890,. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E203274-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 38 cm