Storage basket with lid
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Aug 2012
label: Collection Date
content: 1899 to 1930
name: label: Collector
content: Edward S. Curtis
label: Donor Name
content: James "Jim" H. Graybill
notes: label: Notes
content: Coiled basket vessel with slightly conical convex lid. Around the body of the basket, there are rectangular brown (possibly faded green?) decorations, each occurring approx. 15 cm apart and measuring approx. 6 x 2 cm. Damage and unraveling on lid near tip.
label: Notes
content: Typed note inside basket says: "38. Lidded Storage Basket. Tribe: Alaskan Eskimo - Nunivak Island. Design: six faded 2" x 1" dark bars around body. Size: 10"h., 15 1/2 " dia. 9 1/2" opening. Circa: 1900. Condition: basket - good-: the conical knob of the lid is missing as a result of the Curtis household Cocker Spaniel "Peanuts" biting it off. This basket is similar to those pictured on page 78 of [Curtis] Vol. 20 text." See: Plate "Baskets, Nunivak", facing p. 78, in The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.20, The Alaskan Eskimo. The Nunivak. The Eskimo of Hooper Bay. The Eskimo of King Island. The Eskimo of Little Diomede Island. The Eskimo of Cape Prince of Wales. The Kotzebue Eskimo. The Noatak. The Kobuk. The Selawik ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1930). This image can be viewed online here: http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/viewPage.cgi?showp=1&size=2&id=nai.20.book.00000124.p&volume=20#nav .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Nunivak Island, Bering Sea / Nunivak Island Quad, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2058745
label: USNM Number
content: E432849-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 27 cm
label: Diameter - Lid Diameter
content: 25 cm
label: Circumference
content: 120 cm