Gambling Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Nov 1973
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Louis A. Craig Sr.
label: Donor Name
content: Gen. Louis A. Craig Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SHALLOW TRAY, HEAVY COILED WEAVING VERTICAL TWO ROD FOUNDATION, SEWING OF SPLIT WILLOW, BUT STITCHES ARE NOT SPLIT AND ARE UNUSUALLY CLOSE AND TIGHT (IN CONTRAST TO MOST PLAINS GAMBLING TRAYS, WHICH ARE MUCH MORE LOOSELY DONE). DONOR'S VERY OLD PAWNEE LABEL [glued to bottom of basket] APPEARS VERIFIED BY THE FOLLOWING LITERATURE. GENE WELTFISH: "COILED GAMBLING BASKETS OF THE PAWNEE OTHER PLAINS TRIBES", MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, HEYE FOUNDATION, INDIAN NOTES, VOL. 7, NO. 3, JULY 1930, P.277-95. OTIS T. MASON: "ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY", U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM REPORT, 1902, P. 378-9, PL. 127." SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR DETAILED ANALYSIS AND MEASUREMENTS OF BASKET.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: West, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pawnee (Chaticks Si Chaticks)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 307460
label: USNM Number
content: E416091-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Game Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 16 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 4.5 cm