Sacred Meal Dish Basket
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: "MATERIAL, PREPARED ROOT OF CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." 203,340 A. COILED BASKET TRAY OF THE KATCA INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), IN A SPECIES OF COILED WEAVING CALLED TSAI, IN WHICH THE COIL IS PRODUCED BY A SINGLE ROD. THE SEWING PASSES OVER THIS ROD AND UNDER THE PRECEDING ONE, LOCKING INTO THE STITCHES UNDERNEATH. THE GEOMETRIC FIGURES ARE PRODUCED BY MEANS OF THE BROWN BARK OF REDBUD SPLINTS. USED AS A SACRED MEAL DISH. DIAMETER, 13 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1889. 203,340. 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: E203340-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 33 cm