Dish 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 DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, CAREX (?)." 203,350 A. BASKET BOWL OF THE YOKAIA INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), AND BLACK ROOT OF TSUWIC, A CAREX, OR SEDGE, IN A SPECIES OF COILED WORK CALLED TSAI, IN WHICH A SINGLE ROD CONSTITUTES THE WARP. THE SEWING PASSES OVER THIS ROD AND UNDER THE PRECEDING ONE, LOCKING IN THE STITCH IMMEDIATELY UNDERNEATH. ORNAMENTATION, TREFOIL PATTERN, THE PARTS OVERLAPPING EACH OTHER AND FORMING A TRIANGLE AT THE BOTTOM. USED AS A DISH. DIAMETER, 6 1/2 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1891. 203,350 A. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON. 203,350 B. BASKET BOWL OF THE TAO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, A CAREX, OR SEDGE, IN A SPECIES OF COILED WORK CALLED TSAI, IN WHICH A SINGLE ROD CONSTITUTES THE WARP. THE SEWING PASSES OVER THIS ROD, UNDER THE PRECEDING ONE, AND LOCKS IN THE STITCH IMMEDIATELY UNDERNEATH. ORNAMENTATION, ROWS OF TRIANGLES, SAID TO REPRESENT MOUNTAINS. CONT.SEE CARD. 203,350 C.CONT.SEE CARD.
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: E203350-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 16.5 cm