Twilled Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Marcus Benjamin
label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Double basket with handle loop; designs in brown, black, and natural straw".
label: Notes
content: Basket has a twill tape label inside that says "Mrs. Benjamin 1710 N Street" (address is in NW Washington, D.C.). This would be Carolyn Gilbert Benjamin, who married Marcus Benjamin in 1892. Marcus Benjamin was, among other things, editor at the Smithsonian U.S. National Museum from 1896 to 1931. Mrs. Benjamin served on the jury of awards at the Omaha Exposition of 1898 (The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska). This basket resembles (is?) one shown in lower right in Figure 5, p. 15 of James, George Wharton. 1901. Indian basketry: with 360 illustrations. Pasadena, Calif: Printed privately for the author. This figure shows 7 Choctaw baskets, which are identified as from the collection of Mrs. Marcus Benjamin: https://books.google.com/books/content?id=DbsRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA15&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U0b4RD_jwSc_DHm9rOULIrjMyQI0g&ci=47%2C505%2C905%2C760&edge=0 . On p. 541 of Mason, Otis T., and Frederick V. Coville. 1904. Aboriginal American basketry: studies in a textile art without machinery. Washington: Govt. Print. Off. https://archive.org/details/aboriginalbasket00masorich , Mrs. Benjamin is listed as a basket collector, with a general collection, which is "good in Chetimachas".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Louisiana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Choctaw
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E360691-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket