Meal Jar Basketry
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: "MATERIALS, PREPARED ROOT OF CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS, AND DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, CAREX (?)." FROM CARD: "203,387 A. BASKET JAR OF THE CNAL INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, A CAREX, OR SEDGE, IN A STYLE OF COILED WEAVING CALLED TSAI, IN WHICH A SINGLE ROD CONSTITUTES THE WARP. THE SEWING PASSES OVER THIS ROD, UNDER THE PRECEDING ONE, AND LOCKS IN THE STITCH IMMEDIATELY UNDERNEATH. ORNAMENTATION, AROUND THE BOTTOM TWO ROWS OF CHEVRONS IN BLACK ROOT; ON THE BODY, AN INTERRUPTED ROW OF CHEVRONS IN BLACK; AROUND THE UPPER MARGIN, A ROW OF CHEVRONS IN BLACK; BETWEEN THE TWO LAST-NAMED ROWS A SERIES OR ORNAMENTS IN SHAPE OF THE LETTER Z, WHICH MAY BE TWO FLAG-LIKE DECORATIONS UNITED AT THEIR STEMS. USED FOR HOLDING MEAL. DIAMETER, 10 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1893. 203,387. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY.
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: E203387-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 25 cm