Meal Cup Basket
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, BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS, AND CREST OF LOPHORTYX CALIFORNICUS. LABEL: "BASKET CUP OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW..., SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD ..., AND PLUMES OF CRESTED QUAIL (LOPHORTYX CALIFORNICUS), IN A STYLE OF COILED SEWING 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, THREE SMALL PATTERNS IN BROWN REDBUD ON THE BOTTOM, RESEMBLING CROUCHING ANIMALS: ON THE SIDES, A CONTINUOUS CHEVRON. USED FOR HOLDING MEAL."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Dec 2017
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: E203404-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket