Wicker Basket
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
notes: label: Notes
content: Notes from Sturtevant's personal catalog: "New wickerwork basket, white oak (warp) and honeysuckle vine (weft); stripes dyed with 'chestnut oak bark' (brown) and 'bloodroots' (orange); $0.50 from Caroline Wolf, maker, Big Cove, Qualla Res., N.C., Sept. 15, 1951"
label: Notes
content: Note in hand of WCS, associated with E437,571, E437,572, and E437,574: Caroline Wolf. 2 new ones: honeysuckle vines, dyes: orange bloodroots, brown: chestnut oak bark. 75c and 50c.; 2 oldest: white oat 50c, 2 40c; old: river cane 75c, 2 dyes = same as in honeysuckle (2 colors) used for [tossed?] beans, etc to remove [dust?]; fish basket – (for minnows) 50c, white oak worn on belt – (some make round) [over] other one, 40c “that's where learned that” made by Nancy Wayne ca. 18 yrs ago. Big Cove 9-15-51 $4. Small one c̄ [with] cover one of the first that Caroline Wolf made – 40c (paid her 50c)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Big Cove, Qualla Reservation, North Carolina, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee, Eastern
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2049174
label: USNM Number
content: E437572-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket