Plaited Fish Basket
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
notes: label: Notes
content: Notes from Sturtevant's personal catalog: "Used fish basket, white oak checkerwork, cloth handle. $1.00 from Annie Welch (Up road from Caroline Wolf's house), Big Cove Town, Qualla Res., N.C., Sept. 15, 1951. According to C. Wolf, worn on belt (hence flat on one side - though some are made round) to carry "minnows" in."
label: Notes
content: A Cherokee fish basket is illustrated on p. 23 # 11 in Freeman-Witthoft, Bonita. "Cherokee Indian Craftswomen and the Economy of Basketry." Expedition (the bulletin of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania) 19, no. 3 (Spring 1977): 17-27, https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/cherokee-indian-craftswomen-and-the-economy-of-basketry/. It is noted about the basket illustrated in the article: "Fish basket of oak splints, used by Carl Standingdeer in 1940. Earlier fish baskets have a narrower neck and a more bottle-like shape, while later ones are more cylindrical. They were used with a tiny hook and live bait in angling for brook trout. A fish basket should be just large enough to hold fish for one family meal." See University of Pennsylvania Museum object number CG95-2-4, https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/8242 (retrieved 30 Sept. 2023). An alternate ID for the function of this basket as a gathering basket is noted by Jason Baird Jackson. See "Notes on an Eastern Cherokee Gathering Basket" by Jason Baird Jackson, July 26, 2014 https://jasonbairdjackson.com/2014/07/26/notes-on-an-eastern-cherokee-gathering-basket/ .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Big Cove, Qualla Reservation, North Carolina, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee, Eastern
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2049174
label: USNM Number
content: E437579-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket