Baskets
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "This consists of two wicker work baskets each of which contains four basketry plaques. They are tied together with buckskin and to one piece of the buckskin is attached a piece of abalone shell."
label: Notes
content: Identified 1-18-2011, by Loren Bommelyn, Tolowa tradition bearer, as associated with the girl's puberty ceremony. He also notes that the four coiled basketry plaques inside each of the two small baskets are counters, and that there are also bracelets inside the baskets.
label: Notes
content: Victor Evans purchased a number of artifacts from dealer Grace Nicholson in 1919. 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/ . One of the artifacts on the list in the correspondence is # 6768 "Tolowa Charm Bskts.". It is probable hat E360637 is these artifacts. Sally McLendon also attributes E360637 to dealer Grace Nicholson. See p. 224 - 225 in McLendon, Sally, 1981, "Preparing Museum Collections for Use as Primary Data in Ethnographic Research," In: The Research Potential of Anthropological Museum Collections. Anne-Marie E. Cantwell, James B. Griffin, and Nan A. Rothschild, eds. Annals Of The New York Academy of Sciences, 376:201-227. New York: The New York Academy of Sciences.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Mar 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tolowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E360637-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket / Counter / Bracelet