Meal Jar 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." 203,371 A. BASKET JAR OF THE CHIKOM 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 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 STITCHES IMMEDIATELY UNDERNEATH. ORNAMENTATION, TWO NARROW BANDS IN BROWN REDBUD ON THE BOTTOM, AND THREE SPIRALS OF THE SAME MATERIAL MADE UP OF LONG RECTANGLES, EACH ONE EXTENDING ENTIRELY AROUND THE JAR. USED FOR HOLDING MEAL. DIAMETER, 7 3/4 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1891. 203,371. 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: E203371-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 19.68 cm