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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: "MATERIALS, PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, SALIX HINDSIANA, AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." FROM CARD: "203,434 A. BASKET BOWL OF THE DANOKA INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINDSIANA), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), IN A STYLE OF COILED WEAVING CALLED, IN POMO LANGUAGE, BAM-TSU-WU. THE SEWING PASSES OVER THREE RODS, UNDER ONE OF THE PRECEDING COIL, LOCKING IN THE STITCHES UNDERNEATH. ORNAMENTATION, THREE SPHERICAL SEGMENTS IN BROWN PROCEEDING FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE MARGIN; THE BORDERS ARE DECORATED WITH A QUAIL-PLUME PATTERN. THE THREE FIGURES DO NOT FILL THE ENTIRE SPACE; THEREFORE THE BASKET-MAKER HAS INSERTED A WIDE, V-SHAPED DESIGN, ALSO IN REDBUD. DIAMETER, 15 1/2 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1893. 203,434."
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: E203434-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 39.4 cm