Carrying Basket "Kiaha"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1885
label: Collection Date
content: 1885
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
notes: label: Notes
content: "HELPING STICK" INCLUDED WITH BASKET; ILLUSTRATED IN BAE ANNUAL REPORT 26, PG. 141, FIG. 64 From card: "Illus. in Nat. Mus. Rept 1887, fig. 9, p. 265, also in USNM AR, 1894; fig. 167; p. 471. See also in BAE Annual Report 26, pg. 141, Fig. 64 for explanation of use of"helping stick" included with basket." See also NMNH Department of Botany Edward Palmer collections web exhibit page on this artifact: http://botany.si.edu/colls/palmer/narrative_page.cfm?Narr=14&locality= . Identified there as burden or carrying basket. "This pyramidal carrying-bag is made of netted sotol fiber (Dasylirion wheeleri) or Agave fiber attached to a willow (Salix sp.) hoop. Two woody ribs of saguaro cactus (Carnegiea sp.) are secured to the hoop, extending down and crossing at the vertex; in front of that a piece of matting of split Phragmites sp. or agave leaves is attached, together with a pad of cloth, to protect the carrier's back. The basket is supported by a tumpline across the forehead, woven from the softened fiber of Yucca baccata. The basket rests against the carrier's back, like a large open backpack. A staff, or helping stick, accompanies the basket. The stick is notched at the top and is used to support the basket in an upright position when it is unslung (Mason, 1904; Safford, Unpub:509). It is reported that some of the materials used for the basket were obtained from the Papago, a neighboring tribe (Rea, 1997)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham; Akimel O'otham)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 015930
label: USNM Number
content: E76033-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket