Bowl Basketry
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 STEMS OF BAM, SALIX HINDSIANA, AND DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, CAREX (?)." 203,431 A. BASKET BOWL OF THE MITAMKAI INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINDSIANA), AND DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, A CAREX, OR SEDGE, 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 TRIANGLES SUPERIMPOSED ONE UPON THE OTHER. DIAMETER, 14 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1897. 203,431. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pomo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035435
label: USNM Number
content: E203431-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 36 cm