Basket
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1982
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. E. B. Kavasch
label: Donor Name
content: Sites Native Harvests
notes: label: Notes
content: PINE NEEDLE ARMADILLO BASKET WITH LID MADE BY ELIZABETH MARIE THOMPSON, KOASATI, FROM ELTON, LA. COLIED WEAVE TECHNIQUE USING PINE NEEDLE BUNDLES. HAS TAIL AND LEGS OF PINE NEEDLES WRAPPED IN RAYON? RAFFIA. HEAD IS COLED PINE NEEDLES WRAPPED IN RAFFIA WITH DARK COLORED RAFFIA USED FOR EYES AND EARS. ARMIDILLO ARMORED SKIN MADE FROM PINE CONE SCALES STITCHED ONTO BASKET WITH DARK COLORED RAFFIA. LID CONSTRUCTED OF COILED PINE NEEDLES WRAPPED WITH RAFFIA AND COVERED WITH PINE CONE SCALES STITCHED ONTO LID WITH RAFFIA. COLLECTED BY MS. E. BARRIE KAVASCH IN 1982 FOR SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE (SITES) NATIVE HARVESTS EXHIBIT. CATALOG NUMBERS E430169, E430173, AND E430174 MADE BY SAME ARTIST.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Elton, Louisiana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Koasati (Coushatta)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378691
label: USNM Number
content: E430171-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 21 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 10 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 8 cm