Coiled Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1894
name: label: Collector
content: J. H. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: This basket is described on p. 401 of Mason, Otis T., 1904. "Aboriginal American Basketry: Studies in a Textile Art Without Machinery." In Annual Report of the U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1902. Pp. 173-548. Reprinted, 1970, as Aboriginal Indian Basketry (Glorieta, N.M.: The Rio Grande Press). "... a coiled basket jar of the tribes on the Lower Yukon, Alaska. The foundation is a flat piece of hard wood, varying in width, overlaid by a small splint, which gives an uneven line on the outside. The sewing is done with strips of willow rods without bark. The stitches pass over both stips of the foundation coil underneath. This is the only specimen of its kind in the Museum from Alaska. The use of a broad foundation gives a flat appearance to the surface, something like that of the Mescalero basketry in Arizona. A handle is attached, the technic being the same as that of the basket. It is probably of Indian manufacture. Its height is about 4 3/8 inches ...."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027937
label: USNM Number
content: E153686-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket