Mesquite Gum
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Oct 1902
label: Collection Date
content: 1902
name: label: Collector
content: Frank Russell
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "COLL. IN 1902. BLACK MESQUITE GUM FOR MENDING OLLAS, ETC.." FROM HANDWRITTEN LIST OF SPECIMENS IN ACCESSION RECORD: "BLACK MESQUITE GUM, OLLA PAINT." SEE BAE 26TH ANNUAL REPORT, P. 125-6: "BLACK GUM IS USED FOR DECORATION. THIS IS OBTAINED BY BOILING IN A SMALL EARTHEN POT, OR IN A SEGMENT OF A LARGE ONE, MESQUITE CHIPS FROM PORTIONS OF THE TREE ON WHICH BLACK GUM HAS DRIED INTO HARD SCALES. AFTER BOILING, THIS DYE IS IN THE FORM OF A VERY THIN LIQUID WHICH IS SO PALE THAT IT IS SCARCELY DISTINGUISHABLE ON THE DARK CLAY, BUT AFTER THE VESSEL HAS BEEN GIVEN A SLIGHT BURNING THE PATTERN APPEARS IN DEEP BLACK."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sacaton, Gila River Reservation, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham; Akimel O'otham)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 039990
label: USNM Number
content: E217982-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gum