Dowry Basket
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: "MADE OF THE PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, SALIX HINDSIANA AND THE BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS. PRESENTED TO HER SON-IN-LAW BY THE BRIDE'S MOTHER. BASKET MADE BY JOSEPPA DICK PER BRIAN BIBBY 3-6-1995." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "203,320 DOWRY OR TCIMO PIKA OF THE YOKAIA INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE OF THE PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINDSIANA), AND THE SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS). THE SURFACE IS IN DIAGONAL TWINED WEAVING, A NARROW BAND AT THE BOTTOM IS IN THREE-PLY TWINED WEAVING, AND BROWN GEOMETRIC FIGURES OF GREAT BEAUTY ARE LAID ON SPIRALLY IN CUSET, OR DIAGONAL TWINED WEAVING. CALLED A DOWRY BASKET BECAUSE THE BRIDE'S MOTHER PRESENTS IT TO HER SON-IN-LAW AND HE IS REQUIRED TO FILL IT WITH SUGAR, CAKES, ETC., FOR THE GUESTS. DIAMETER, 18 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1893. 203,320. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON."
label: Notes
content: Attributed to Joseppa Dick by Sally McLendon. See McLendon, Sally, 1981, "Preparing Museum Collections for Use as Primary Data in Ethnographic Research," In: The Research Potential of Anthropological Museum Collections. Anne-Marie E. Cantwell, James B. Griffin, and Nan A. Rothschild, eds. Annals Of The New York Academy of Sciences, 376:201-227. New York: The New York Academy of Sciences.
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: E203320-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 46 cm