Small Basket
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1870 to 1880
name: label: Collector
content: Emma Louise Babbitt
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
notes: label: Notes
content: Notes from Sturtevant's personal catalog: "Northwest coast basket collected by Emma Babbitt on a visit to Oregon or Washington about 1875 (accurate +/- 5 years), truncated cone, twined with weft-overlay decoration (drawing by WCS) Later note: This one sent from Portland, Ore. In 1922 to Miss. E.M. Wallace by Mrs. Craighill (NOT < E. Babbitt ca. 1875)" Brittle condition, and some broken pieces from rim.
label: Notes
content: Edith M. Wallace; scientific illustrator/biologist. Worked at CalTech with A.H. Sturtevant and Phoebe Reed; NOTE: a tag for Carib Basket Dominica, B.W.I was found inside this basket.
label: Notes
content: Possibly of Tlingit or Haida manufacture?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Feb 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Coast, United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit (?)
label: Culture
content: Haida (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2049174
label: USNM Number
content: E437815-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket