Snail Jar 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: "MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, CAREX MENDOCINOEUSIS, DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC CAREX? AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." FROM CARD: 203,284 A. BASKET BOWL OF THE BULDAM INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE IN PLAIN TWINED WEAVING, OR BAMTUSH, FROM THE ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), WITH A BAND OF BLACK GEOMETRIC PATTERNS IN TSUWIC, THE DYED ROOT OF A SEDGE, OR CAREX, AND NARROW BROWN BANDS IN MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS). AROUND THE BOTTOM IS A BAND OF TI TWINED WEAVING, AND AROUND THE TOP TWO ROWS OF CUSET TWINED WEAVING. THE BORDER IS NOT FINISHED OFF. A BASKET JAR FOR SNAILS USED AS FOOD. DIAMETER, 8 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1890. 203,284. 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: E203284-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 20 cm