Dish Basketry
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: BEADS, PREPARED ROOT OF CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS; AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS. LABEL: "BASKET DISH OF THE POMO INDIANS...MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW...AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD...IN A STYLE OF COILED SEWING 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, THE SURFACE, EXCEPTING A SMALL PART OF THE BOTTOM, COVERED WITH TRIANGLES IN BROWN, HAVING FLAME-SHAPE EDGES. THE BODY IS COVERED WITH WHITE AND BLUE BEADS."
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: E203416-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket