Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 May 1990
label: Collection Date
content: 1979
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. E. B. Kavasch
label: Donor Name
content: Sites Native Harvests
notes: label: Notes
content: SPANISH MOSS BEADED COIL BASKET MADE BY ROSALEE MEDFORD, KOASATI, FROM ELTON, LA, WIFE OF CHOCTAW BASKET MAKER CLAUDE MEDFORD, JR (SEE CATALOG NUMBERS E430157-E430167) AND NIECE OF KOASATI BASKET MAKER, ELIZABETH MARIE THOMPSON (SEE CATALOG NUMBERS E430169, E430171, E430173, E430174). ROWS OF LIGHT BLUE, GREEN, AND YELLOW GLASS BEADS STRUNG ONTO RAYON? RAFFIA LASHING THAT HOLDS COILS TOGETHER. COLLECTED BY MS. E. BARRIE KAVASCH IN 1979 AND DONATED TO SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICES (SITES) FOR NATIVE HARVESTS EXHIBIT. CATALOG NUMBER E430172 MADE BY SAME ARTIST.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Elton, Louisiana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Koasati (Coushatta)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378691
label: USNM Number
content: E430170-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 6 cm