Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1867
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT., 1902; FIG. 202; P. 523 ILLUS. IN NAT. MUS. REPT. 1884, PL. XXXII, FIG. 58, P. 306." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BASKET BOWL.--COILED WEAVING, MADE ON A FOUNDATION OF YUCCA, THE SEWING BEING DONE WITH SPLINTS OF WILLOW OR PINE. RUDE [sic] ORNAMENTATION. DIAMETER, 11 INCHES; DEPTH, 4 INCHES. PIMA INDIANS (PIMAN STOCK), GILA RIVER RESERVATION, ARIZONA. 5.548. COLLECTED BY DR. EDWARD PALMER." See also NMNH Department of Botany Edward Palmer collections web exhibit page on this artifact: http://botany.si.edu/colls/palmer/narrative_page.cfm?narr=17 . It is identified there: This coiled basket bowl is from an early 1867 Palmer expedition. The coil foundation is made from finely shredded cattail stem (Typha latifolia (L.)) or yucca fiber (Yucca sp.), the sewing from splints of willow (Salix sp.) or pine (Pinus sp.), and the designs in splints of Devil's Claw (Proboscidea sp.) pod. The stitches pass over the foundation and interlock with those underneath.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Jun 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Gila River Reservation, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham; Akimel O'otham)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001136
label: USNM Number
content: E5548-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 28 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 10 cm