Conical Burden 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 STEMS OF BAM, SALIX HINDSIANA AND THE BARK OF SHOOTS OF MULE, CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS." 203,303 A. BURDEN BASKET OF THE POMO INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE STEMS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINDSIANA), AND THE SPLIT STEMS OF MULE, OR REDBUD (CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS). THE SURFACE IS IN PLAIN TWINED WEAVING, EXCEPTING ONE OR TWO NARROW BANDS OF DIAGONAL WEAVING. IN THE ORNAMENTAL BANDS MADE OF REDBUD STEMS THE BROWN FIGURES ON THE OUTSIDE ARE WHITE ON THE INSIDE, AND VICE VERSA. THIS EFFECT CAN BE PRODUCED ONLY WITH SPLIT MATERIAL OF THIS CHARACTER. A CONICAL BASKET FOR CARRYING BURDENS. DIAMETER, 24 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, MENDOCINO CO., CALIFORNIA, 1893. 203,303. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON.
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: E203303-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 61 cm