Basket Water Pail
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." BASKET POT OF THE CIKOM INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE SPLIT ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS). THE BODY IS COVERED WITH A SPECIES OF TWINED WEAVING CALLED TI, IN WHICH AN ADDITIONAL ROD IS INSERTED UNDERNEATH THE TWINE FILAMENTS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BASKET. THE INSIDE IS IN PLAIN TWINED WEAVING. ORNAMENTAL BANDS ARE OF TWO KINDS: IN ONE THE GEOMETRIC FIGURES ARE PRODUCED BY MEANS OF THE BROWN OUTER SIDE AND THE WHITE INSIDE OF THE REDBUD SHOOTS; IN THE OTHER FORM OF ORNAMENTATION THE BROWN IS PRODUCED BY THE REDBUD AND THE WOOD COLOR BY FILAMENTS OF SPLIT SEDGE ROOT. USED IN CARRYING WATER. DIAMETER, 6 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1889. 203,326. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON.
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: E203326-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 15 cm