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date: label: Accession Date
content: 1862
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. George Gibbs
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. George Gibbs
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD; "DEPOSITED." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "CAT. NOS. 666; 2139; 2141-2143; 2711, COLLECTED BY CAPT. CHARLES WILKES, U.S.N., AND GEORGE GIBBS. BASKETRY OF NORTHWESTERN SALISHAN TRIBES. TEXTURE IN THE BIRD-CAGE STITCH COMMON TO THIS AREA. THERE IS A VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL ELEMENT OF COARSE TWINE, AND THESE ARE HELD TOGETHER BY A WHIPPING OF GRASS, IN NATURAL COLOR AND DYED. GEOMETRIC DESIGNS AND ANIMAL FIGURES SERVE AS ORNAMENTS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Coast, British Columbia (not certain), Canada (not certain) / United States (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000051
label: USNM Number
content: E666-0
objectType: label: Object Type
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