Tobacco Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Apr 1970
name: label: Donor Name
content: Miss Awona W. Harrington
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Made by Mrs. Phoebe Maddux to demonstrate process of making. A deep vessel constricted toward the rim. Plain two strand twining with decoration of alternating rows of black and light colored lines and rawhide ties but no cover, and inside not trimmed cleanly. Refer: O'Neale, 1932, pl. 48b."
label: Notes
content: This tobacco basket is illustrated in Plates 23 (in process of being made by Phoebe Maddux), 24 (still in process) and 25a (finished), after p. 124, in Harrington, J. Peabody. (1932). Tobacco among the Karuk Indians of California. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.. (BAE Bulletin 94). In the photos it has a lid/top cover. After comparison of the photos in the publication to baskets in the Harrington collection, E411429 has been identified as the lid/top for this basket. Note that Plates 18 - 23 after p. 110, and pp. 107 - 126 show and describe the process of making the tobacco basket.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Orleans, Humboldt County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Karok (Karuk)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 288476
label: USNM Number
content: E411425-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket