Coiled Basket
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
notes: label: Notes
content: Notes from Sturtevant's personal catalog: "Basket, coiled; 3-rod foundation; circular, flaring sides, flat bottom; diam. 5", height 2 1/2"; rim damaged in several places; design = animal [and/or bird?] figures; washed, impregnated with beeswax in benzene by WCS. Papago or Pima?"
label: Notes
content: [Collecting history for items;] 421-428. Purchased ($12.00) Dec. 1957, from Mrs. Charles B. Cory Jr of 1815 Homewood, Ill. Collected by her father-in-law, Charles B. Cory (c. 1921), whose diaries in her possession indicate the following significant trips: Yellowstone, 1884 [Dakota and Montana]; Coll., Calif, 1888; Colo.R., Wash. Terr., Calif, Brit. Col, 1888; Chicago, Montana, etc, 1890.
label: Notes
content: Collector was Charles Barney Corey (1857 - 1921), American ornithologist, golfer, outdoorsman, and author. See Osgood, Wilfred H. “In Memoriam: Charles Barney Cory. Born January 31, 1857-Died July 31, 1921.” The Auk 39, no. 2 (1922): 151–66. https://doi.org/10.2307/4073946.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 May 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Papago (Tohono O'odham) (?)
label: Culture
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham; Akimel O'otham) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2049174
label: USNM Number
content: E437878-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket