Burden Basket
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: "CONICAL BASKET MADE OF THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." 203,321 A. BURDEN BASKET OF THE YOKAIA INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS). THE BODY IS IN DIAGONAL TWINED WEAVING. THE ORNAMENTATION, REACHING FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE TOP IN THREE SPIRALS, IS MADE IN CUSET, OR DIAGONAL TWINED WEAVING, THE MATERIAL BEING THE BROWN REDBUD STEM. THE WARP IS STRENGTHENED BY A HOOP OF OAK FASTENED ON BY COILED WEAVING IN SPLIT GRAPEVINE. THIS FORM OF BASKET IS UNIVERSALLY EMPLOYED IN CARRYING ACORNS AND OTHER SEEDS FROM THE FIELD. DIAMETER, 28 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1890. 203,321. 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: California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pomo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035435
label: USNM Number
content: E203321-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 71 cm