Basketry "Tree-Server" 1
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
name: label: Collector
content: George R. Gliddon
label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "DONOR'S TAG SAYS "NUBIAN DINNER TABLE". A COILED BASKETRY STRUCTURE OF THREE CIRCULAR TRAYS, TIERED UPON A HOLLOW CORE, SUPPORTED BY A FLAT CIRCULAR FOOT. CORE HAS SEVERAL CERAMIC SHARDS AND PIECES OF FLINT IN IT, MAKES TINKLING SOUND WHEN PIECE IS SHIFTED. ALL EDGES BOUND WITH LEATHER."
label: Notes
content: See National Institute for the Promotion of Science. 1841[-46]. Bulletin of the proceedings of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, pp. 230-232, which includes a letter from George R. Gliddon dated April 14, 1842, which includes a list of the objects presented by Gliddon to the National Institute. This basket is probably the one listed there on p. 231 as "One Nubian basket work tray or dinner table, Aswan."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Nov 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nubia, Sudan / Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E5454-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket