Seed Flail
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 OF THE PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, SALIX HINDSIANA. ILLUS. HNDBK. OF N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL. 8, CALIFORNIA, FIG. 3, PG. 635. "WICKERWORK". FROM CARD: "203,268 A. HARVESTING FAN OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE ROUGH AND PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINDSIANA). IN THE TEXTURE OF THIS FAN THERE ARE FOUR ELEMENTS WORTHY OF STUDY. A HOOP OF WOOD FORMS THE BORDER OF THE FAN. A NUMBER OF WILLOW STEMS CONSTITUTE THE WARP, GATHERED INTO A CLOSE BUNDLE FOR THE HANDLE AND SPREAD OUT INTO A SPOON SHAPE AS A BASIS FOR THE WORKING PART. THE MOST OF THE WARP IS IN COMMON WICKERWORK, RARE ON THE PACIFIC COAST, BUT ROWS OF TWINED WEAVING ARE ALSO USED IN STRENGTHENING. BRAID IN THE SAME MATERIAL AND BUNDLES OF FINE STEMS BRACE THE HOOP ON THE SIDES, THE WHOLE BORDER BEING WRAPPED WITH WILLOW STEMS. USED BY INDIAN WOMEN IN BEATING THE SEEDS FROM GROWING PLANTS INTO A CARRYING BASKET FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRANSPORTATION. DIAMETER, 13 INCHES."
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: E203268-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flail
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 33 cm