Bean Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Jan 1886
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
notes: label: Notes
content: The bean basket was included in the NMNH Constitution Ave. Lobby Case exhibit featuring the ethnobotanical collections of Dr. Edward Palmer, Dec. 2006 - Jan. 2008. See also NMNH Department of Botany Edward Palmer collections web exhibit page on this artifact: http://botany.si.edu/colls/palmer/narrative_page.cfm?Narr=16&locality= . Identified there: "The basket is made from a Nolina species (called "kurú" in Rarámuri) (Camou-Guerrero 2008:270). The Rarámuri also use Nolina for making baskets, colanders, thatch, and sleeping mats. Similar baskets are found in found in archaeological sites in the Rarámuri homeland (Pennington, 1983:283). Among the plants still used today are species of Nolina."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Chihuahua, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tarahumara (Rarámuri, Ralámuli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 017111
label: USNM Number
content: E126675-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket