Condiment Dish 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, AND DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, CAREX (?)." FROM CARD: "203,383 A. BASKET JAR OF THE KULANAPO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), 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 IN DYED SEDGE --A MALTESE CROSS ON THE BOTTOM AND ON THE BODY; BETWEEN THE ARMS OF THE CROSS ARE FOUR CONVENTIONAL FIGURES THAT ARE MORE ELABORATELY WORKED OUT ON LARGER BASKETS. USED AS A CONDIMENT DISH. DIAMETER, 4 1/2 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1891. 203,383. 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: E203383-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 11.4 cm