Food Platter Basketry
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: "BASKETRY MADE FROM THE PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, SALIX HINDSIANA. RESERVED FOR USE OF GUESTS." FROM CARD: "FOOD PLATTER OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINDSIANA), BY A PROCESS OF WEAVING CALLED TI, WHICH IS A SPECIES OF TWINED WORK IN WHICH THE TEXTURE IS STRENGTHENED BY A ROD INSIDE OF THE TWINE. THE ENDS OF THE WARP ARE TURNED DOWN AND THE BORDER IS FINISHED OFF WITH A LARGE HOOP HELD IN BY A WHIPPING OF WHITE AND BROWN SPLINTS. DECORATION, TWO NARROW BANDS IN BROWN. RESERVED FOR USE OF GUESTS. DIAMETER, 23 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1889. 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: E203257-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 58 cm