Small Water Bucket, Basket Work
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
label: Collection Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: John P. Monteith
label: Donor Name
content: John B. Monteith
notes: label: Notes
content: PURCHASED BY COLLECTOR FROM KOW-KOW-HI-AT-UM. - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997 SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. FOUNDATION AND WEFT OF THIS COILED BASKET ARE CEDAR ROOT. WHITE PART OF IMBRICATION IS BEAR GRASS. BROWN AND DARK BROWN PART OF IMBRICATION IS CEDAR BARK. BUCKSKIN THONG IS LOOPED THROUGH ONE PART OF RIM. - MATERIALS IDENTIFIED BY MARGARET MATHEWSON 1-26-1999
label: Notes
content: BASKET HAS DOWNRIVER ("KLICKITAT" STYLE) SHAPE, BUT DECORATIVE FIGURES ARE UNUSUAL. GIVEN THAT THERE WAS A SMALL TRADITION OF COILED BASKETRY AMONG NEZ PERCE, DESIGNS MAY BE SYMPTOMATIC OF A NEZ PERCE ORIGIN. - MARY D. SCHLICK, 29 JAN. 1999.
label: Notes
content: Illus. fig. 5, p. 64 in Grafe, Steven L., 1999, "Nez Perce Decorative Art of the 1870s," American Indian Art Magazine, 24(4). Identified there as a basket, split red cedar roots (Thuja plicata), bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax) and bark of red cedar root, 6 1/4" high x 7" diameter (16 x 18 cm.).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lapwai Reservation, Idaho, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Nez Perce (Nimiipuu)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005302
label: USNM Number
content: E23858-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 16 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 18 cm