Mat
name: label: Collector
content: US Department of the Interior, Atlanta Exposition
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: "RUSH MAT, IN PLAIN WEAVING". BULRUSH WEFTS, DIAGONALLY TWINED ACROSS BASSWOOD WARPS; DIAMOND PATTERN OF WEFTS DYED ORANGE, PURPLE AND GREEN. MATERIALS IDENTIFIED FROM CARRY A LYFORD "THE CRAFTS OF THE OJIBWA (CHIPPEWA)" (INDIAN HANDCRAFTS 5, OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, 1943). FOUND IN THE SCHOOL COLLECTION STORAGE AREA (11/1994) WITH A VERY SIMILAR MAT (CATALOG NUMBERC 175814). DETERMINED BY WILLIAM STURTEVANT, ETHNOLOGY CURATOR NMNH, TO BE ONE OF FOUR MATS ACQUIRED 7/18/1896 (CATALOG NUMBERS 175814-175817) AND NOTED AS MISSING IN 1977. THE CATALOG NUMBER PERHAPS LOST, MAYBE ON A TAG, WHEN PLACED IN THE SCHOOL COLLECTION. DECONTAMINATED AND STORED WITH CHIPPEWA COLLECTION 11/1994. FROM CARD: "RUSH MATS, IN PLAIN WEAVING. 175816 EXCHANGED 6/30/1913 BUREAU OF EDUCATION, MANILLA, P.I."
label: Notes
content: Provenience note: donor for E175814 - 7 is listed on catalogue card as "U.S. Interior Dept., Atlanta X." This presumably refers to the U.S. Department of the Interior exhibit at the Cotton States and International Exposition of Sept. - Dec. 1895, also called the Atlanta Exposition.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E175815-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 237.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 105.4 cm