Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: Jun 1841
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: LARGE BASKET. OLD PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: USNM ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1902, ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY, OTIS MASON, PL. 164, P. 436. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: ILLUS. FIG. 2, P. 45 AND DISCUSSED P. 46 IN "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984, AND ID THERE AS TWANA SOFT-TWINED BASKET, CALLED T'KAYAS, USED FOR HOUSEHOLD STORAGE OF BLANKETS AND CLOTHING, LOOPS OF TWISTED CEDAR ROOTS AT RIM FOR TYING BASKET SHUT, DECORATED IN OVERLAY OF CEDAR BARK AND BEAR GRASS WITH DESIGNS OF DOGS IN RIM AREA AND STARFISH IN MAIN FIELD, A SMALL BIRD FIGURE (HORNED GREBE) MARKS THE SEAM AT THE RIM. Illus. Fig. 9.9, p. 207 in Brotherton, Barbara. 2008. S'abadeb = The gifts : Pacific Coast Salish arts and artists. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press. Figure caption identifies as Twana, Skokomish, early 19th century, cattail leaves, bear grass, cedar bark, soft twined basket. Margaret Mathewson concurs with Skokomish attribution.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Feb 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oregon Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Twana
label: Culture
content: Skokomish
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2713-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 37 cm
label: Diameter - Rim
content: 40 cm
label: Unknown - Base
content: 33 cm
label: Circumference - Rim
content: 115 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 38 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 36.8 cm