Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: Jun 1841
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: PUBLICATION: MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, S.I. PRESS, 1985, P. 144. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: #2614 - COWLITZ TYPE BASKET. SEE USNM A.R. 1902, ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY, O.T. MASON, PAGE 432. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 9, PG. 511." From second card: "[Identified as] Cowlitz? *Based on comparision with other specimens. *See USNM A.R. 1902, Aboriginal American Basketry, O.T. Mason, pg. 432. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 9, pg. 511." ILLUS. FIG. 10, P. 48 AND DISCUSSED P. 47 OF "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984 AND ID THERE AS COILED OVAL BASKET, COWLITZ, IMBRICATED DESIGN IN FOUR FIELDS. LID IS MISSING. PROBABLY COLLECTED FROM COWLITZ ON A TRIP BETWEEN PUGET SOUND AND THE COLUMBIA RIVER IN JUNE 1841.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 9.10, p. 208 in Brotherton, Barbara. 2008. S'abadeb = The gifts : Pacific Coast Salish arts and artists. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press. Figure caption identifies as Cowlitz coiled and imbricated basket of cedar root, bear grass, and horsetail root. "The shape and use of four design fields mark it as an early Cowlitz style."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Feb 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oregon Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cowlitz (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2614-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 20 cm