Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
label: Collection Date
content: 1892 to 1908
name: label: Collector
content: Edwin L. McLeod
label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Banded with diamond shape figures in black, straw color, and maroon." Original cultural designation on catalogue card was "Kern River."
label: Notes
content: This basket has a glued on label on the bottom: "No. 136. Property of Mrs. George H. Taylor, [Fresno, Cal.]" Edwin Lincoln McLeod (1861 - 1908) a store clerk in Bakersfield, California, made a collection of California baskets from 1892 - 1908, including a number from Kern County. His sister Mrs. George H.Taylor (Jessie Taylor) inherited the collection from her brother. The remaining part of the E.L. McLeod/Taylor basket collection went to the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in 1915, Acc. 511. Mrs. Taylor glued on labels to the baskets, which can still be seen on McLeod collection baskets at the Phoebe Hearst Museum. Text of the labels includes a number and "Property of Mrs. George H. Taylor, Fresno, Cal.". See also pp. 188 - 189 in Cohodas, Marvin. 1997. Basket weavers for the California curio trade: Elizabeth and Louise Hickox. [Tucson]: University of Arizona Press; and Taylor, Jessie (Mrs. George H.), 1912, "The E. L. McLeod Collection of Indian Baskets," Out West, 36, n.s. 4: 2-9 (July 1912). In addition to the Mrs. George H. Taylor label, there is an additional small handwritten label glued on top of part of the Taylor label which says: "6521 old Kern". This label appears to be from dealer Grace Nicholson. Basket was purchased by Evans from Grace Nicholson in 1919; Nicholson # 6521. See copy of Evans correspondence with Nicholson, dated June 19, 1919, filed in the Anthropology Collections Lab accession file; original of correspondence is part of the Grace Nicholson Papers and Addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; see online finding aid https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf787005cq/ .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kern River, Kern County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tubatulabal, Kern
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E360576-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket