Family Platter 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, AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." 203,342 A. COILED BASKET TRAY OF THE KABENAPO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), IN A SPECIES OF COILED WEAVING CALLED TSAI, WHEREIN THE COIL IS FORMED BY A SINGLE ROD OF WILLOW ROOT, THE SEWING PASSING OVER IT AND UNDER THE PRECEDING ONE, INTERLOCKING WITH THE STITCHES UNDERNEATH. SLIGHT ORNAMENTATION PRODUCED BY MEANS OF REDBUD STEMS. USED FOR HOLDING FOOD. DIAMETER, 12 1/2 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1890. 203,342. 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: E203342-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 31.8 cm