Basket
name: label: Collector
content: W H. Abbott
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: The accession number for this is unknown. In the first copy of the catalogue ledger book, 20723 is listed as part of the Swan collection (accession 4730), and is identified as a workbasket from Sitka, Alaska. But the catalog card identifies this number as belonging to a Choctaw basket donated by "W H Abbott", which would be a different accession number. The Choctaw basket is the one still in the collection, and it is marked with this catalog number (though the number appears to have been "refreshed"). The Swan basket is apparently no longer in the collection. The second/later copy of the catalogue ledger book has "Choctaw Basket, La, near N. Orleans" with collector listed as "Abbott" written in by this catalogue number, in different handwriting from the Swan material on the page above it. There is also a notation that says "Exchanged for a Sitka basket" but that has subsequently been crossed out by an unknown person.
label: Notes
content: THOMAS COLVIN, BASKET MAKER AND STUDENT OF CHOCTAW BASKET MAKERS, IDENTIFIES THIS AS STYLISTICALLY HOUMA RATHER THAN CHOCTAW.
label: Notes
content: Albert Naquin, Traditional Chief; Boyo Billiot, Deputy Chief; Chantel Comardelle, Tribal Secretary; and Heather Stone, collaborator; made the following comments during the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, October 23-27, 2017. Boyo notes that this is the kind of basket that used to be made in their community, it would have been made of palmetto. He also notes that he made similar objects out of palmetto when he was younger.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New Orleans, Near, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Choctaw (?)
label: Culture
content: Houma (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E20723-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket