Basket sieve/sifter
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Chitimacha
- Previous owner
- Christine Paul, Chitimacha, 1874-1946
- Collector
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Collection History
- Collected from Christine Paul (Chitimacha, 1874-1946) in 1908 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member) during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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- Catalog Number
- 1/8400
- Barcode
- 018400.000
- Object Type
- Food Gathering and Preparation
- Indigenous Term
- he sha p'a
- Object Name
- Basket sieve/sifter
- Media/Materials
- Cane (Swamp cane/River cane)
- Techniques
- Twill-plaited
- Place
- Near Baldwin; Baldwin; Saint Mary Parish; Louisiana; USA
- See related items
- Chitimacha
- Food Gathering and Preparation
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_19647
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6bc8a0213-be41-4f86-a1bd-0d6554c96e73
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