Baskets Plait Work
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Jul 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Father Adrien E. Rouquette
label: Donor Name
content: Father Adrien E. Rouquette
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; FIG. 123-4; P. 387."
label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD (for both E24143 and 24144): "BASKETS (13).---MADE OF YELLOW, BLACK, AND WHITE CANE, WOVEN IN TWILL, CROSSING WITH THE WOOF TWO OR MORE WARP SPLINTS, AND MANAGING THE STITCHES SO AS TO PRODUCE VARIOUS GEOMETRIC PATTERNS IN THE DIFFERENT COLORS. THE POINTED BASKETS ARE MADE FOR PRESENTS, BECAUSE, AS THE DONOR CLAIM, THEY RESEMBLE THE HEART WHICH SHOULD ACCOMPANY EVERY GIFT. VARIOUS SIZES AND DESIGNS. TAMMANY PARISH, LA., 1876. 24,143-4. COLLECTED BY FATHER ADRIAN ROQUETTE [sic, should be Adrien Rouquette]."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Tammany Parish / Bayou Lacombe, Louisiana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Choctaw (?)
label: Culture
content: Chitimacha (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005281
label: USNM Number
content: E24143-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket