Dowry Basket
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: "MATERIALS, PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, CAREX MENDOCINOENSIS, AND BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." 203,334 A. BASKET BOWL OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), AND SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS), IN A STYLE OF WEAVING CALLED TI, IN WHICH AN ADDITIONAL ROD IS WOVEN UNDER THE TWINE FILAMENT OUTSIDE OF THE BASKET. THE GEOMETRIC FIGURES ON THE SURFACE ARE PRODUCED BY MEANS OF THE TWO COLORS SHOWN IN THE CERCIS SPLINTS, THE OUTSIDE BEING BROWN AND THE INSIDE WHITE. A VERY LARGE SPECIMEN, IN WHICH THE WEAVING IS SUPERB. CALLED A DOWRY BASKET BECAUSE THE MOTHER OF THE BRIDE WEAVES IT FOR HER DAUGHTER AND THE GROOM IS OBLIGED TO FILL IT WITH CAKES FOR THE GUESTS ON THE OCCASION OF THE WEDDING. DIAMETER, 21 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1889. 203,334. 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: E203334-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 53 cm