Split Cane Matting.
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Sep 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: As of 2006, there are two objects with this number: a fragment of a tule?/reed mat (#1 of 2) and a large river cane mat (#2 of 2 , formerly ET5214). Note that the ledger book list only 1 object with this number, and calls it "split cane matting" (based on the measurement, this would be the large piece, #2 of 2) so it is possible that the small piece is misnumbered, or it was simply overlooked when the collection was added to the ledger book. In any case, the small one is referenced several times in the catalog card, and therefore has been associated with this number for a long time.
label: Notes
content: From card: "The soil is impregnant with alum and this article was most perfectly preserved. Woven with ridge 3" wide. 150 ft. above the creek and the same distance from the summit of the cliff. Photo Neg. No. 32548-H [small mat fragment #1 of 2?] - Typha mat - Typha latifolia [cattail]. Cord from same [mat] - Eryngium yuccaefolium. - identified by Dr. A. C. Whitford, Research Chemist, Alfred, N.Y. 7/21/1939. Jan. 1978 - A tule mat? [small fragment, #1 of 2] Placed in Textile Room as it was being broken-up in Tenn. storage. Also unfolded and placed in plastic bag. - J. Gardner. See Plate II in "Prehistoric Textile Art of the Eastern United States" by William Henry Holmes in BAE 13th Annual Report, for illustration of this cane mat (large mat, #2 of 2). N.A.A. Negative # Tennessee-98 is Neg. # for book plate. As of 1991 this object [large cane mat, #2 of 2] could not be located in storage [it was located in 2006, previously inventoried as ET5214]..."
label: Notes
content: Reference on reed mat fragment (small fragment #1 of 2): p. 8, 12 and 22 in Whitford, A. C. 1941. Textile fibers used in eastern aboriginal North America. New York: American Museum of Natural History. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1609195.html.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Morgan County / Roane County, Tennessee, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 017928
label: USNM Number
content: A132252-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat