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date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Apr 1962
name: label: Collector
content: Clark Field
label: Donor Name
content: Clark Field
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "Cylindrical, rim slightly turned in, double weave, with lower half of outer layer left unfinished to show construction. Made of natural tan colored root runners of buck brush (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus). Vertical elements in sets of three, 3 cm. apart extended into two loop handles at the rim. Decorated with spaced horizontal bands of dark brown dyed elements. Made by Lucy Mouse full-blooded Cherokee, 1930. "Though of European derivation and usually dated after 1880, a well documented specimen from 1810 - 20 in Yale Peabody Museum. Though made in North Carolina as well as Oklahoma rare in collections." - Dr. W. C. Sturtevant. Refer to" Clark Field: "Root Runner Basketry. in the Clark Field American Indian Pottery and Basketry Collections." Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, 1952."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kenwood, Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 241754
label: USNM Number
content: E399875-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket