Water Tight Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Feb 1867
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Hiram W. Read
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Hiram W. Read
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "4428. ORNAMENTED. ILLUS. IN NAT. MUS. REPT 1884, PL. XXIX, FIG.55. DITTO, REPT, 1902; FIG. 192; P. 512. P. 306." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "4428. BASKET BOWL.-MADE OF COILED OSIER. ORNAMENTED WITH URN SHAPE PATTERNS MADE BY INTRODUCING DYED SPLINTS. DIAMETER, 11 INCHES; DEPTH, 3 1/2 INCHES. GAROTERO APACHE INDIANS (YUMAN STOCK), ARIZONA. 4,428. COLLECTED BY REV. H. W. READ."
label: Notes
content: Provenience Note: Culture for this object is listed as Garrotaro Indians in Anthropology catalogue ledger book and as Garrotaro or Garotero Apache on catalogue cards and 19th century exhibit label with catalogue cards. Someone has interpreted Garrotaro/Garotero to mean Coyotero, and has added that to the catalogue cards. Note though that Garrotero or Garroteros Apaches is an old name sometimes used for the Yavapai.
label: Notes
content: This is most probably the basket listed on p. 16 in National Institute for the Promotion of Science, and Alfred Hunter. 1859. A popular catalogue of the extraordinary curiosities in the National Institute arranged in the building belonging to the Patent Office. Washington, D.C.: Alfred Hunter, and identified there as "Basket obtained from the Garrotaros, a band of the Apache Indians, residing on the Rio Gila, in New Mexico. Presented by Rev. H. W. Read, the first Missionary to New Mexico." This would indicate the basket is from the National Institute collections, and would probably be part of either Accession No. 81 or 135. Rev. Hiram Walter Read, a Baptist missionary, did missionary work in New Mexico 1849-1854, including "missionary tours" in 1851 in New Mexico, Mexico and Texas. In 1854 he accompanied Andrew B. Gray's Texas Western Railroad Survery through Tucson to Fort Yuma, doing evangelical work along the way.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Sep 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Gila River, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache, Coyotero (?)
label: Culture
content: Yavapai (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 67A00014
label: USNM Number
content: E4428-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 28 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 8.9 cm