Dowry Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Aug 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. John W. Hudson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MATERIALS, PREPARED ROOT OF CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS, AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." FROM CARD: "203,390 A. BASKET BOWL OF THE YOKAIA INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), IN A STYLE OF COILED SEWING CALLED TSAI, IN WHICH A SINGLE ROD CONSTITUTES THE WARP. THE SEWING PASSES OVER THIS ROD, UNDER THE PRECEDING ONE, AND LOCKS IN THE STITCH IMMEDIATELY UNDERNEATH. ORNAMENTATION, THE BODY SURROUNDED WITH BANDS OF BROWN, MADE UP OF HOUR-GLASS PATTERNS INCLOSING RHOMBS IN WHITE. CALLED A DOWRY BASKET BECAUSE THE MOTHER OF THE BRIDE WEAVES IT FOR HER DAUGHTER, AND THE GROOM IS OBLIGED TO FILL IT WITH CAKES FOR THE GUESTS ON THE OCCASION OF THE WEDDING. DIAMETER, 17 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO. CO., CALIFORNIA, 1888. 203,390. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pomo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035435
label: USNM Number
content: E203390-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 43 cm