Guest's Platter 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 CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS, AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." 203,341 A. COILED BASKET BOWL OF THE KULANAPO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), IN A SPECIES OF TWINED WEAVING CALLED TSAI, IN WHICH THE COIL CONSISTS OF A SINGLE ROD. THE SEWING PASSES OVER THIS ROD AND UNDER THE PRECEDING, INTERLOCKING WITH THE STITCHES UNDERNEATH. GEOMETRICAL FIGURES PRODUCED BY MEANS OF BROWN BARK OF REDBUD. USED FOR SETTING FOOD BEFORE GUESTS. DIAMETER, 16 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1890. 203,341. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E203341-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 41 cm