Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
label: Collection Date
content: 1894
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. John W. Hudson
label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Coiled. Has old Museum Cat. No. 203,545, Hudson Collection."
label: Notes
content: The records for the old Smithsonian number for the basket, E203545, indicate it was collected in Los Angeles, California in 1894 by John W. Hudson. The card for E203545 includes an old Smithsonian exhibit label with this text: "203,545. BASKET JAR OF THE PIMA INDIANS (PIMAN STOCK). MADE FROM SPLIT WILLOW, IN A STYLE OF COILED WEAVING WHEREIN THE BODY OR FOUNDATION IS MADE UP OF A NUMBER OF SPLINTS. THESE ARE SEWED TOGETHER BY A CONTINUOUS WHIPPING, BUT THE STITCHES ARE FROM ONE-FOURTH TO ONE-HALF INCH APART. EACH ONE GOES OVER THE FOUNDATION BUNDLE, LOCKS IN THE STITCH UNDERNEATH, AND PASSES THROUGH ONE OR TWO OF THE UPPER SPLINTS IN THE BUNDLE BELOW. THIS STYLE OF SEWING IS UNIQUE IN THAT SO MUCH OF THE FOUNDATION MATERIAL IS SHOWN. DIAMETER, 8 1/2 INCHES. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, 1894. 203,545. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham; Akimel O'otham)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E360832-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket