Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1841
name: label: Collector
content: Williams Roberts
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: AS OF 2003 THERE ARE 3 BASKETS WITH THIS CATALOGUE # IN THE COLLECTIONS, ALONG WITH ET20353 & 4 WHICH FORMERLY BORE THIS #. LARGEST OF 3 WAS ILLUS. FIG. 17, P. 51 IN "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984, AND ID THERE AS FLAT WRAPPED TWINED BAG WITH POCKETS ON BOTH SIDES, CLATSOP OR TILLAMOOK, WOVEN ON CONTINUOUS WARP, WITH CONTRASTING DESIGNS ON BACK. MAY HAVE BEEN USED AS A WALLET TO CARRY AND TRANSPORT PERSONAL GOODS. 23.5 CM. H,; 19.4 CM. W..
label: Notes
content: 1 LIGHT YELLOWISH TAN BASKET WITH LIGHT BROWN DESIGNS AND DARKER BROWN TRIANGLES AT RIM, WITH ATTACHED LOOPS ALL AROUND. THE BASKET IS BRITTLE AND LOOPS HAVE BROKEN OFF AT ONE SECTION. THE BRAID AROUND THE RIM IS OF A DIFFERENT MATERIAL THAN THE REST. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO AN ORIGINAL SHIPPING LABEL READS, "WM ROBERTS EX EX VINCENS- 1 BASKET". THIS OBJECT WAS EXCHANGED WITH THE DANISH NATIONAL MUSEUM IN 1867 AND WAS LOCATED THERE IN 1987. DANISH CATALOGUE NUMBER IS H-1383. THE BASKET HAS NO S.I. CATALOGUE NUMBER, BUT FOR THE PRESENT IS # 2708.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Oregon Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Clatsop (?)
label: Culture
content: Tillamook (?)
label: Culture
content: Chinook (?)
label: Culture
content: Salish
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2708-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 17 cm
label: Minimum Diameter - Object
content: 12 cm
label: Maximum Diameter - Object
content: 15 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 23.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 19.4 cm