Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: Jun 1841
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: CYLINDRICAL BASKET WITH ROUNDED BASE AND FLARED SIDES MADE OF SPRUCE ROOT AND BEARGRASS. THE RIM CONSTRUCTION IS OVERCAST, WITH LOOPS OF ROOT SEWN ON, AND A RAWHIDE THONG LACED THROUGH LOOPS. THE BASE CONSISTS OF TWO GROUPS OF WARPS (4 TOTAL) SEWN TOGETHER, WITH PLAIN TURNING. THE DESIGN CONSISTS OF OVERLAY WITH ALTERNATING COLORS OF BROWN AND WHITE. PUBLICATION: ILLUS. IN "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," BY VIOLA & MARGOLIS, S.I. PRESS 1985, P. 144. U.S.N.M. ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1902, ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY, OTIS MASON, PL. 165, P. 548. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, 1987-89. RETURNED FROM SITES, 1988.
label: Notes
content: From card: "#2709 - Illus.in USNM Rept, 1902; Pl. 165; p. 548."
label: Notes
content: ILLUS. FIG. 7, P. 48 AND DISCUSSED P. 47 IN "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984 AND ID THERE AS STIFF-TWINED BASKET, SPRUCE ROOTS, OVERLAY DECORATION DESIGN IS CALLED "CASCADE" AMONG PUGET SOUND SALISH. QUINAULT MANUFACTURE BUT MOST LIKELY COLLECTED FROM THE TWANA.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oregon Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Quinault (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2709-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 12 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 12.5 cm