Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Nov 1929
name: label: Collector
content: John P. Harrington
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM ACCESSION RECORD: BAE CHIEF STIRLING'S LETTER, DATED NOVEMBER 21, 1929: "...A SPECIMEN OF A BLACKBERRYING BASKET MADE BY MRS. ASCENCION SOLORSANO, A SAN JUAN INDIAN, AND COLLECTED BY MR. J.P. HARRINGTON IN HIS PRESENT FIELD SEASON." SEE BAE 47TH ANNUAL REPORT: "MR. JOHN P. HARRINGTON, ETHNOLOGIST, WORKED DURING THE YEAR (1929) SECURING THE LANGUAGE AND MUCH OF THE ETHNOLOGY OF THE SAN JUAN TRIBE OF CALIFORNIA THROUGH AN AGED AND ILL INFORMANT, MRS. ASCENSION SOLORSANO, AT MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA"; THERE FOLLOWS A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF MRS. SOLORSANO'S IMPORTANCE TO HARRINGTON'S WORK AND TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY (PP. 3-5). From card: "Conicall basket of Tule. Rim of willow. Sycamore leaves and tulito were laid inside to keep the berries from falling through. Made by Mrs. Ascension Solorsano and collected by J P.Harrington." People corrected to Costanoan, when had been mistakenly listed as (Tule) Yokuts. Explanation follows: "The maker of this basket, Ascension Solórsano, was a Costanoan Indian of San Juan Bautista (Mission), California. In ethnological literature, Costanoan people of that region have sometimes been called Mutsun. 'Tule' is the material out of which most of the basket was made - in this case, 'Tule' does NOT mean Yokuts. (Present-day people prefer Ohlone to Costanoan as a designation.)' - 5-10-1979 Marc Okrand/ Anthro. Archives (fellow)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Sep 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Costanoan (Ohlone)
label: Culture
content: Ohlone
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 107866
label: USNM Number
content: E345441-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket