Winnower Basket Tray
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, SPLIT ROOT OF KAHUM, CAREX MENDOCINOENSIS AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." 203,328 A. BASKET TRAY OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM SPLIT ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS). THE SURFACE IS IN A SPECIES OF TWINED WEAVING CALLED TI, IN WHICH AN ADDITIONAL ROD IS INSERTED UNDER THE FILAMENTS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE TRAY. THE INSIDE IS IN PLAIN TWINED WEAVING. ORNAMENTATION CONSISTS OF BANDS OF GEOMETRIC FIGURES IN BROWN AND WHITE, WHICH ARE PRODUCED BY EXHIBITING THE OUTSIDE AND INSIDE OF REDBUD SHOOTS. IN OTHER BANDS THE BROWN CERCIS SPLINTS ALTERNATE WITH THOSE OF SEDGE ROOT. USED IN WINNOWING SEED. THE SEEDS AND CHAFF ARE PLACED ON THE TRAY, WHICH IS GENTLY STRUCK WITH THE HANDS SO THAT THE SEEDS MAY FALL OVER THE EDGE UPON A SHEET AND THE CHAFF BE BLOWN AWAY. DIAMETER, 21, INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1897. 203,328.
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: E203328-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 53 cm