Coiled Basket-Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN NAT. MUS. REPT 1884, PL. XXVII, FIG. 50, & XXVIII-52, P. 306. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; FIG. 174; P. 484. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990." See also NMNH Department of Botany Edward Palmer collections web exhibit page on this artifact: http://botany.si.edu/colls/palmer/narrative_page.cfm?Narr=11&locality= . The basket is described there: ""The coil is a bundle of yucca or other fiber, and the sewing is done with splints of different natural color, resembling reed cane, and with others dyed a beautiful chestnut and black. The lovely cloudy effects produced by the ingenious use of splints of different natural colors resemble those on the [Hopi] sacred bread trays. The fastening is of simple coil sewing. The ornamentation is a series of crosses arranged vertically, and four series of rhomboids inclosing [sic] triangles. The black line at the bottom, nearly continuous, encloses a circle in uniform unvarnished color. All the body color above this line is of a shining yellow, varying in shade."" It is also noted on the web page that the Cahuilla used a grass (Muhlenbergia rigens (Benth.) Hitch.) bundle with a rush (Juncus sp.) or willow (Salix sp.) as the primary sewing material, accented with sumac (Rhus trilobata).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Southern, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cahuilla
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005334
label: USNM Number
content: E21787-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket