Basketry
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1920
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Ella F. Hubby
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Ella F. Hubby
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FOUNDATION: WILLOW, WHITE WILLOW. RED THREAD: CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS. BLACK THREAD: ROOT OF PTERIS AQUILINA. HEIGHT 3 INCHES, DIAMETER 16 1/2 INCHES. 13 STITCHES AND 8 COILS TO THE INCH. A LOW BOWL-THIS BASKET WAS MADE BY BILLY BAKER'S ... [WIFE], NOW DEAD (1912) WHO FORMERLY LIVED IN INDIAN VALLEY. ILLUS. HNDBK. OF N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL. 8, CALIFORNIA, FIG. 6, PG. 377." ACCORDING TO BRIAN BIBBY OF THE CROCKER ART MUSEUM, THIS BASKET WAS PROBABLY MADE BY LUCY BAKER. MR. BIBBY SPOKE WITH LILLY BAKER, NOW IN HER LATE 70'S (1996), WHO SAID THAT HER FATHER AND GRANDFATHER'S NAME WAS BILL BAKER AND THAT HER GRANDMOTHER, LUCY BAKER, MADE THE BASKET. (FEBRUARY, 1996).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Indian Valley, Plumas County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maidu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 064687
label: USNM Number
content: E313252-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 8 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 41.9 cm