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date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: Jun 1841
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. John L. Fox
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: COILED BASKET WITH IMBRICATION AND BEADING MADE OF CEDAR ROOT, BEARGRASS AND HORSETAIL ROOT. THE RIM CONSTRUCTION IS FALSE BRAID, BOTTOM CONSTRUCTION IS MEANDER COIL WITH BEADING OF BEARGRASS NEAR THE EDGE. THE RIM DESIGN CONSISTS OF SMALL BLACK, SINGLE AND STACKED SQUARES OVER WHITE. THE BODY DESIGN CONSISTS OF A "SNAKE" MOTIF OF TWO BLACK LINES ON FULLY IMBRICATED WHITE BACKGROUND. THERE ARE FOUR BROKEN LEATHER LOOPS ATTACHED TO THE RIM. PUBLICATION: "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," BY VIOLA & MARGOLIS, S.I. PRESS, 1985, P. 144. U.S.N.M. ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1902, ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY, OTIS MASON, FIG. 157, P. 432. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. A NOTE IN THE ORIGINAL S.I. LEDGER READS, "BASKET USED FOR COOKING." ILLUS. FIG. 9, P. 48 AND DISCUSSED P. 47 IN "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984 AND ID THERE AS COILED BERRY BASKET, COWLITZ?, TOTAL IMBRICATION AND WHITE BACKGROUND WITH ZIGZAG PATTERNS CALLED "SNAKE" DESIGN BY MANY OF THE SALISH. PROBABLY COLLECTED FROM COWLITZ ON A TRIP BETWEEN PUGET SOUND AND THE COLUMBIA RIVER IN JUNE 1841.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oregon Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cowlitz (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2137-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 13.5 cm
label: Diameter - Rim
content: 19 cm