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 CARRYING BASKET MADE OF THE PREPARED ROOT OF THE CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS, AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." 203,322 A. BURDEN BASKET OF THE CANEL 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 IS FORMED BY THREE ROWS OF GEOMETRIC FIGURES IN BROWN, LAID ON SPIRALLY FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. THE BORDER IS STRENGTHENED BY A HOOP OF WOOD SEWED ON BY MEANS OF SPLIT GRAPEVINE. USED IN CARRYING ACORNS AND OTHER SEEDS FROM THE FIELD. DIAMETER, 27 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1895. 203,322. 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: E203322-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 69 cm