Double Walled Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Apr 1889
name: label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Modern. Made of split cane. "Double Walled Basket: Made of cane splits, a few being colored brown or yellow with Indian dyes. The walls & bottom are double throughout, the only point of junction being the upper rim. Only one woman in the tribe makes this peculiar kind of basket. The small specimen procured was made only to work up a quantity of cane and gives no fair idea of her ability in this line." - James Mooney Notes." From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Double-Walled Basket. - Woven from cane splits, a few on the outside and bottom being dyed yellow and brown with Indian dyes. The walls and bottom are double throughout, the only point of union being at the rim. Height 5 1/2 inches; square bottom 5 1/2 inches across; slightly curved sides; circular rim 6 1/4 inches in diameter. Cherokee Indians, Eastern Cherokee Reservation, North Carolina. Collected by James Mooney. Only one woman in the band still made this peculiar type of basket in 1891."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Eastern Cherokee Reservation, North Carolina, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 021819
label: USNM Number
content: E133023-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket