Basket Pot
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, THE PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, CAREX MENDOCINOENSIS AND THE BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." 203,325 A. BASKET POT OF THE YOKAIA INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS). THE BODY IS COVERED WITH A SPECIES OF TWINED WEAVING CALLED TI, IN WHICH AN ADDITIONAL ROD IS INSERTED UNDER THE TWINE ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE VESSEL; THE INSIDE IS IN PLAIN TWINED WEAVING. THE ORNAMENTATION CONSISTS OF BANDS IN WHICH GEOMETRIC FIGURES ARE PRODUCED BY MEANS OF THE BROWN SIDE AND THE INNER WOODY SIDE OF THE SPLIT REDBUD SHOOTS. USED IN COOKING. DIAMETER, 8 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1895. 203,325 A. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON. 203,325 B. BASKET POT OF THE TSETUM INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS). THE ENTIRE BODY OF THE BASKET IS COVERED WITH A SPECIES OF TWINED WEAVING CALLED TI, IN WHICH AN ADDITIONAL ROD IS INSERTED ON THE OUTSIDE UNDERNEATH THE TWINE FILAMENTS. CONT. SEE CARD. 203,325 C. SEE CARD.
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035435
label: USNM Number
content: E203325-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 20 cm