Meal Jar Basketry
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, PREPARED ROOT OF CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS; DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, CARIX (?) AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." FROM CARD: "203,388 A. BASKET JAR OF THE YOMATCH INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), AND DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, A CAREX, OR SEDGE, IN A STYLE OF COILED SEWING CALLED TSAI, IN WHICH A SINGLE ROD CONSTITUTES THE WARP. THE SEWING PASSES OVER THIS ROD, UNDER THE PRECEDING ONE, AND LOCKS IN THE STITCH IMMEDIATELY UNDERNEATH. ORNAMENTATION, AROUND THE BOTTOM AND ON THE BODY A DOUBLE ROW OF BROWN REDBUD; AROUND THE UPPER MARGIN, TWO ROWS OF RECTANGLES IN BLACK. USED AS A MEAL DISH. DIAMETER, 9 3/4 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1896. 203,388. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON.
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035435
label: USNM Number
content: E203388-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 24.76 cm