Basket Mortar
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 THE PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, CAREX MENDOCINOENSIS AND THE BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS, OAK RIM." 203,300A. BASKET HOPPER FOR ACORN MORTAR OF THE KATO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), WITH GEOMETRIC PATTERNS PRODUCED BY MEANS OF THE BROWN AND THE INNER WOOD OF REDBUD STEMS. BODY, IN PLAIN TWINED WEAVING, STRENGTHENED WITH BANDS OF TI WEAVING, IN WHICH A HORIZONTAL WARP IS INCLOSED IN THE TWINE. BORDER, FORMED BY A HOOP OF WOOD SEWED ON BY MEANS OF SPLIT GRAPEVINE. USED FOR GRINDING ACORNS. DIAMETER, 20 1/2 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1889. 203,300. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON. THIS OBJECT PREVIOUSLY WAS ASSIGNED ET07644. THAT T-NUMBER IS OBSOLETE. D.NGUYEN, JAN 7, 1999.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Jun 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cahto
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035435
label: USNM Number
content: E203300-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mortar Hopper
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 52.1 cm