Mush Pot 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: "MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF KAHUM CAREX MENDOCINVINSES AND THE BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." FROM CARD: "203,279 A. BASKET BOWL OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). IN PLAIN TWINED WEAVING, OR BAMTOOSH, FROM SPLIT ROOT OF KAHUM, OR CALIFORNIA SEDGE (CAREX MENDOCINENSIS), WITH THREE BANDS OF GEOMETRIC FIGURES MADE IN SPLIT SHOOTS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS). THE TWO COLORS OF THE BANDS ARE PRODUCED BY EXPOSING THE BARK SIDE AND THE INSIDE OF THE SPLINTS. THE BORDER OF THE BOWL IS FORMED IN REDBUD SPLINTS INTWINING THREE WARP STEMS AT ONCE, THE COLORED PATTERN SHOWING ONLY ON THE OUTSIDE. A GLOBULAR BOWL INDENTED ON THE BOTTOM, USED FOR COOKING MUSH. DIAMETER, 10 1/2 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA. 203,279."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jun 2022
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: E203279-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 26.7 cm