Dance Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 May 1929
name: label: Collector
content: E. G. Johnson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: NOTE: THE CARD CATALOG GIVES THE ORIGINAL NUMBER OF THIS OBJECT AS 10; IT IS CORRECTLY 16. From card: "Oblong cylindrical form with tanned deer skin ends and margin. Snake decorative design." Of the type called a Jump Dance basket.
label: Notes
content: Accession file indicates this was collected from Little Billy, while original tag with basket calls him Billy Little, a.k.a. William Little. Accession record (and tag) also note that design on the basket means "he goes like a snake", and that the painted part of the decoration was done by Billy Little. "It is unusual to find a painted basket, and is only found where the owner of the basket was a bow and arrow and flower stick maker. The Indians who followed this trade [like Billy Little] painted their own Dance Basket after the woman had woven it."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 May 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Metilten (Matilton) Village, Near, Humboldt County / Hoopa Valley Reservation, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hupa
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 105865
label: USNM Number
content: E342283-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket