Water-Tight Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1863
name: label: Collector
content: Bernard R. Ross
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Robert Kennicott
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "*IDENTIFIED AS "SLAVE" BY CORNELIUS OSGOOD, SEPT. 1970, SOLELY ON THE BASIS OF INDEX ENTRY "FT. SIMPSON." R. KENNICOTT." MADE OF ROOTS OF LARCH." H. 8 CM.; DIA. 19.5 CM.. COILED SHALLOW BOWL-SHAPED BASKET WITH FLARING RIM.
label: Notes
content: Ledger book identifies this as from Indians of Fort Simpson, and further notes "watertight basket made of roots of larch, Slave Indians of Mackenzie River."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Slavey (Slave, Dene)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000177
label: USNM Number
content: E855-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 8 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 19.5 cm