Hand Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Dec 1888
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Modern style. Hickory splints dyed. "Hand Basket with Lid: Made of oak splints & dyed with aniline. It is an imitation of civilized [sic] patterns, and tho quite pretty represents no Indian idea." - James Mooney Notes." Two additional cards are present which have not been transcribed here that contain extracts from James Mooney's notes with a general description of the types of Cherokee baskets circa 1888. (digital images of these cards are attached to this catalogue record.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Eastern Cherokee Reservation, North Carolina, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 021450
label: USNM Number
content: E130476-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket