Meal Bowl 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: "MADE FROM PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, CAREX MENDOCINOENSIS, PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, SALIX HINDSIANA AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." FROM CARD: "203,285 A. BASKET BOWL OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE STEMS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINDSIANA), THE SPLIT ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), WITH BANDS OF GEOMETRIC PATTERNS FORMED FROM THE BARK SIDE AND THE WOODY SIDE OF REDBUD STEMS. THE BODY IS IN PLAIN TWINED WEAVING, WITH HERE AND THERE NARROW BANDS OF THE TWO OTHER KINDS OF TWINED WORK CALLED CUSET' AND TI. AROUND THE BOTTOM IS A BAND OF THREE-PLY TWINE INSEDGE ROOT. A GLOBULAR BOWL WITH CONCAVE BOTTOM, USED FOR HOLDING MEAL. DIAMETER, 10 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1891. 203,285. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jun 2022
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: E203285-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 25 cm