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date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Mar 1933
label: Collection Date
content: Jan 1933
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "DECORATED WITH SQUARE AND DIAMOND-SHAPED DESIGNS SAID TO REPRESENT THE PERCH AND BULL HEAD. MISS DENSMORE'S NOTATION ON THIS (IN ACCESSION PAPERS) STATES - 'CHITIMACHA BASKET. COLL. AT CHARENTON, LA. JAN. 1933.' 'BOUGHT OF WOMAN WHO MADE IT. DIAMOND-SHAPED PATTERN SAID TO REPRESENT A PERCH [FISH] AND SQUARE SAID TO REPRESENT A BULL-HEAD [BULLHEAD CATFISH]. BOUGHT BECAUSE OF THESE PATTERNS - NOT AS A SPECIMEN OF WEAVING. THE SHAPE IS LIKE THAT OF THE LARGE 'UTILITY TRAYS' OR SHALLOW BASKETS, ONE USE BEING IN WINNOWING CORN.'"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Charenton, Saint Mary Parish, Louisiana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chitimacha
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 123461
label: USNM Number
content: E365175-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket