Basketwork Container Item Number: E60235-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN NM REPORT 1884, PL. VI, FIGS. 9, 10, P. 306; USNM AR 1888, FIG. 185-6, AND PL. 36, FIG. 180, P. 314; REPORT, 1902, FIG. 155; P. 426. TAG ON ARTIFACT SAYS SALISH, FRASER RIVER."See USNM AR for 1902, p. 426, where basket is identified as "procured from Sitka [sic], Alaska Indians by J.J. McLean, to which place it had doubtless drifted in trade from the Fraser River (British Columbia, Canada) Region." While the basket was actually catalogued as from "Hoonia" (i.e. Hoonah), not Sitka, the identification of the basket as Fraser River Salish type seems correct and it has been stored with that collection.
Item History
- Made in Hoonah, Chichagof Island, Alaska, USA and British Columbia, Canada
- Collected by Sgt. John J. McLean in Hoonah, Chichagof Island, Alaska, USA and British Columbia, Canada during 1881
- Received on June 23, 1882
What
- Name
- Basketwork Container
- Identification Number
- E60235-0
- Type of Item
- basket
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit, Hoonah, Salish and Fraser River
- Field Collector
- Sgt. John J. McLean
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Hoonah, Chichagof Island, Alaska, USA and British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- Hoonah, Chichagof Island, Alaska, USA and British Columbia, Canada
When
- Collection Date
- during 1881
- Acquisition Date
- on June 23, 1882
Other
- Accession Number
- 011616