Fancy Jar Basketry
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 KAHUM, CAREX MENDOCINOENSIS, AND DYED ROOT, TSUWIC, CAREX (?). ILLUS. IN USNM REPT. 1902, PL. 81, P. 548. BASKET MADE BY JOSEPPA DICK PER BRIAN BIBBY 3-6-1995." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "203,398. OBLONG BASKET JAR OF THE YOKAIA INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), AND BLACK ROOT OF TSUWIC, A CAREX, OR SEDGE, 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, FLAT BOTTOM DECORATED WITH CHECKER PATTERN IN BLACK; LOWER PART OF THE BODY, A ROW OF RHOMBS; UPPER PART OF THE BODY, A LINE OF MEN AND WOMEN HOLDING ON TO EACH OTHER'S HANDS. DIAMETER, 7 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1894. 203,398. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON."
label: Notes
content: Attributed to Joseppa Dick by Sally McLendon. See McLendon, Sally, 1981, "Preparing Museum Collections for Use as Primary Data in Ethnographic Research," In: The Research Potential of Anthropological Museum Collections. Anne-Marie E. Cantwell, James B. Griffin, and Nan A. Rothschild, eds. Annals Of The New York Academy of Sciences, 376:201-227. New York: The New York Academy of Sciences.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Mar 2019
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: E203398-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 18 cm