Dowry 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: "MATERIALS, PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, CAREX MENDOCINOENSIS, DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, CAREX (?), THROAT AND SCALP FEATHERS OF KATATC, MELANESPES CAL., CREST OF TCIKAKA, LAPHORTYX CAL., AND PREPARED SHELL OF KAYA, SAXIDORMIS GRACILIS." FROM CARD: "203,458 A. BASKET BOWL OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE IN THE COILED WORK CALLED BAM-TSU-WU, FROM ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), WITH ELABORATE CONVENTIONAL PATTERNS IN TSUWIC, DYED SEDGE ROOT. ORNAMENTED WITH RED TUFTS FROM THE THROAT AND SCALP FEATHERS OF KATATCH, OR WOODPECKER (MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS), BLACK PLUMES OF TCHIKAKA, OR CRESTED QUAIL (LOPHORTYX CALIFORNICUS), DISKS OF KAYA, OR CLAM SHELL (SAXIDOMUS GRACILIS), AND BEADS. A BEAUTIFUL, LARGE, GLOBOSE BOWL CALLED A DOWRY BASKET, BECAUSE THE GROOM AT THIS WEDDING FILLS IT WITH CAKES AND DAINTIES FOR THE GUESTS. DIAMETER, 11 1/2 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA. 203,458. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Dec 2017
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: E203458-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 29.2 cm