Mush Bowl Basket
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, PREPARED ROOT OF CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS, AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BASKET BOWL OF THE KATO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), IN A STYLE OF COILED WORK CALLED BAM-TSU-WU, IN WHICH THE FOUNDATION IS MADE UP OF THREE SEPARATE RODS, ONE SMALLER THAN THE OTHERS, CARRIED AROUND IN A CONTINUOUS COIL AND SEWED IN PLACE BY MEANS OF SPLINTS, WHICH PASS OVER THE THREE RODS FORMING THE COIL, UNDER THE UPPER OR SMALLEST OF THE THREE RODS OF THE PRECEDING TURN, AND LOCK WITH THE STITCHES UNDERNEATH. ORNAMENTATION, SIX VERTICAL ROWS OF ARROWHEADS IN BROWN. USED FOR HOLDING MUSH. DIAMETER, 15 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1890. 203,427. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON."
label: Notes
content: See footnote 8, p. 86, in Winther, Barbara, 2000, "Yuki and Yuki-style Basketry," American Indian Art Magazine, 25(3). Basket is identified there as leftward coiled.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mendocino County / Russian River, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cahto
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035435
label: USNM Number
content: E203427-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 38 cm