Basket-Sling Item Number: E23472-0 from the National Museum of Natural History

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FROM CARD: "23470-76. #23472 - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; FIG. 142; P.453. #23472: ILLUS. FIG. 99, P. 72 IN A GUIDE TO WEFT TWINING BY DAVID W. FRASER. PHILADELPHIA: UNIVERSITY OF PENN. PRESS, 1989." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BASKET STRAP.--A WOVEN BAND OF RED, WHITE, AND BLACK YARN WITH A PLAITED ROPE ATTACHED TO EACH END. USED TO FACILITATE THE CARRYING OF HEAVILY LADEN BASKETS. THE ROPES ARE FASTENED TO THE BASKET, WHICH IS HELD UPON THE BACK BY THE WOVEN BAND, WHICH EXTENDS OVER THE FOREHEAD OF THE CARRIER. WIDTH, 2 1/4 INCHES. CLALLAM INDIANS (SALISHAN STOCK), WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 23,472. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."E23472, ET14189, and E23470 are visible in a display case at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, as part of the Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum exhibits in the United States Government Building, featuring "American Aboriginal Handicraft Types of Weaving" presented by Department of Anthropology. USNM Neg. No. 13764. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 62A, Folder 12, Image No. SIA_000095_B62A_F12_003. https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_401053 .