Dance Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Mar 1886
name: label: Collector
content: Lt P.H. Ray
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BEADED WORK. [NOTE: THIS SEEMS TO BE A MISTAKE. LEDGER BOOK CALLS THIS 'BASKET WORK, GRASS,' NOT BEADED WORK. -F. PICKERING 5-21-1999.] CARRIED IN RIGHT HAND IN DANCING. DECORATED WITH RED CLOTH & FEATHERS." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "DANCE WAND OF THE HUPA INDIANS ... MADE IN TWINED WEAVING OF SPLIT ROOTS, ORNAMENTED WITH GEOMETRIC DESIGNS IN FERN STEMS AND TWIGS OF CERCIS, AND FOLDED TOGETHER IN FORM OF A SATCHEL. THE EDGES ARE STRENGTHENED WITH RODS OF WOOD, THE ENDS OF WHICH ARE DECORATED WITH RED CLOTH AND FEATHERS." THIS OBJECT WAS ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS A DANCE BASKET. OBJECT NAME WAS LATER CHANGED TO DANCE WAND. AS THIS OBJECT IS A JUMP DANCE BASKET, IT HAS BEEN RESTORED TO ITS ORIGINAL CATALOGUE NAME. - F. PICKERING 5-21-1999
label: Notes
content: Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies this as from the Kenuck Band. Per Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 8, California, p. 153, Kenuck refers to the Yurok.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Mar 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Humboldt County / Hoopa Valley, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hupa (?)
label: Culture
content: Yurok (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 017239
label: USNM Number
content: E126508-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 56 cm