Mush Ladle 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: "MADE FROM PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, CAREX MENDOCINOENSIS AND THE BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." FROM CARD: "203,296 A. BASKET TRAY OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), AND THE SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), WITH THE OUTER PORTION IN GEOMETRIC PATTERNS PRODUCED BY SHOWING THE BARK AND THE WOODY SIDE OF THE REDBUD STEMS. BODY, IN PLAIN TWINED WEAVING. BOTTOM, IN DIAGONAL TWINE, WITH BANDS ENCIRCLING THE INNER PORTION MADE IN TI WEAVING AND CUSET, OR DIAGONAL WEAVING. USED AS A LADLE FOR SCOOPING MUSH. DIAMETER, 12 1/2 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1890. 203,296. 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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035435
label: USNM Number
content: E203296-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 31.8 cm