Mat
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 SEDGE. USED FOR LEACHING ACORN MEAL." FROM CARD: "203,269 A. MAT FOR LEACHING MEAL OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE STEMS OF RUSHES IN COARSE-TWINED WEAVING HAVING TRIANGULAR MESHES. THIS FORM OF MESH IS EFFECTED BY INCLOSING ALTERNATELY TWO WARP STEMS IN EACH TWIST, BUT ON THE NEXT ROUND DIFFERENT STEMS ARE INTWINED. USED IN LEACHING THE MEAL OF ACORNS AND HORSE-CHESTNUTS. THE POISONOUS SUBSTANCE IS THUS EXTRACTED AND THE MEAL RENDERED EDIBLE AND NUTRITIOUS. LENGTH, 28 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1890. 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: E203269-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 71 cm