Plaited Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Feb 1895
name: label: Collector
content: William J. McGee
label: Collector
content: William Dinwiddie
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "174,524-7A. COLLECTIONS OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. BASKETS.--MADE OF YUCCA AND AGAVE LEAVES, WOVEN IN DIAPER. THIS CLASS OF BASKETS HAVE SQUARE BOTTOMS AND CIRCULAR RIMS. THEY VARY IN FORM FROM VERY SHALLOW, WIDE-BOTTOMED BASKETS OF CONSIDERABLE SIZE, TO SMALL-BOTTOMED AND HIGH-SIDED BASKETS, SOMETIMES FURNISHED WITH CAPS OR LIDS, AND A PLAITED HANDLE. SOME OF THE BASKETS HAVE AN OUTER STRENGTHENING BAND PLAITED ALONG THE MARGIN OF THE RIM. THE PATTERN IS SIMPLE, VARIED SLIGHTLY AT TIMES TO PRODUCE RIGHT-ANGLE EFFECTS. PAPAGO INDIANS, PIMA CO., ARIZONA, 1894. 174,524. 174,525, 174,526. 174,527. COLLECTED BY W J MCGEE AND WM. DINWIDDIE. THESE BASKETS ARE TOO FLIMSY TO BE PUT TO SEVERE INDUSTRIAL USE, AND THE OUTPUT IS SMALL."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, San Xavier Reservation / Pima County, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Papago (Tohono O'odham)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029025
label: USNM Number
content: E174524-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket