Work Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Jul 1908
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Ales F. Hrdlicka
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Coiled from sweet grass and black sewing thread, starting from a disk of birchbark. The lid is constructed in the same way and is decorated with designs scratched in the bark and colored [porcupine quills]."
label: Notes
content: There is an inked inscription on inside of lid, apparently by Ales Hrdlicka. While not always easy to read, it appears to say: "Menominee sweetgrass work basket; "ka-ku-pe-na-ka-se" ("basket"); Grass - "wei-nar-kon" ("dirty grass"); Collected by A.H.". This may be one of the objects listed under number 5 in list in accession file and identified there as: "1 sweet smelling grass basket [from] Elisabet Kakihkgua."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Green Bay Agency, Brown County, Wisconsin, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Menominee (Mamaceqtaw)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 049017
label: USNM Number
content: E251941-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket