Plaited Cane Basket
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
notes: label: Notes
content: Notes from Sturtevant's personal catalog: "Basket; square bottom, round rim, stiff loop handle; height 12" inc. handle; cane, twilled U404, some elements dyed yellow, red, black (commercial dyes). Bought for $1.50 from Johnson General Merchandise, Philadelphia; said to be made by Conehatta. Collected in Miss. by W.C.S., 4/27/1958 - 4/29/1958. Choctaw"
label: Notes
content: Conehatta is a Choctaw community/place name in Newton Co., Mississippi. There is also a Conehatta Creek in the area from which it takes its name. See Baca, Keith A. (2007). Native American Place Names in Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. p. 30. https://epdf.pub/native-american-place-names-in-mississippi.html
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Mississippi, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Choctaw
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2049174
label: USNM Number
content: E437590-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket