Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838? - 1842?
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: Found in the collections without a museum catalogue number. Given # EC320-0 for tracking purposes. From California? Currently stored with Pomo. Exterior of basket decorated with red and some tufts of green? feathers; remnants of pendant strings with white glass beads which were also used as exterior decoration. Margaret Mathewson says this may be a Wilkes Collection/U.S. Exploring Expedition piece. Jane Walsh speculates that this basket could be Peale # 362, Anthropology Catalogue # E2724-0, in the U.S. Exploring Expedition collection, which is identified in the Peale catalogue as a California feather basket. This basket resembles the one illustrated as Fig. 313, p. 213 in the B.A.E. 6th Annual Report, which was published in 1888 (feather basket in illustration has pendant strings of glass beads tipped with shell ornaments). That basket is described in the publication as "Northwest Coast", which was often how Wilkes pieces from the West Coast, including California baskets like # E2724, were attributed by the museum cataloguer, as from the "Northwest Coast of North America."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: California (not certain), United States (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: EC320-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket