Conical 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: "MADE OF THE PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, SALIX HINDSIANA; THE PREPARED ROOT OF BIS, PTIVIS AQUILINA AND THE PREPARED ROOT OF CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS. GRAPE LACING." 203,302 A. BURDEN BASKET OF THE MITAMKAI INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE STEMS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINDSIANA), THE PREPARED ROOTS OF BES, OR BRACKEN (PTERIS AQUILINA), AND THE PREPARED ROOTS OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), WITH GEOMETRIC BANDS IN DYED ROOT. BODY, IN PLAIN TWINED WEAVING, WITH OCCASIONAL NARROW BANDS IN DIAGONAL TWINE. THE ORNAMENTAL BANDS ARE ALL IN BIRD-CAGE TWINE, OR LIT. BORDER, OF WILLOW ROD SEWED ON WITH SPLIT GRAPEVINE. A CONICAL BASKET FOR CARRYING ACORNS AND OTHER SEEDS FROM THE FIELD. DIAMETER, 24 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1889. 203,302. 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: E203302-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 61 cm