Jewel Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 May 1953
name: label: Collector
content: Henriette L. Dessez
label: Donor Name
content: Henriette L. Dessez
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Twined basket with braided handle but no lid. Background color natural (cream). Decoration in dark brown, reddish brown and yellow geometric designs, primarily compositions of triangles. Col. about 1900. Letter accompanying this specimen addressed to donor from Wm. B. Freer, Hupa Valley Agency, Calif., Dec. 31, 1900 states that the basket was especially made for Miss Dessez by "the Dusky woman." Indicates the basket just completed prior to that date."
label: Notes
content: "The Dusky woman" probably refers to Tasentce, a.k.a. Emma Dusky, Mrs. Henry Frank, Hupa basket maker.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hoopa, Hoopa Valley Reservation / Humboldt County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hupa
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 198357
label: USNM Number
content: E392346-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket