Burden basket
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Chachilla (Cayapas)
- Collector
- Samuel A. Barrett (Samuel Alfred Barrett/S.A. Barrett), Non-Indian, 1879-1965
- Expedition sponsor
- Marie A. Heye (Marie Antoinette Lawrence Heye), Non-Indian, 1845-1915
- Collection History
- Collected between 1908 and 1909 by Samuel A. Barrett (1879-1965, later Director of the Milwaukee Public Museum and Research Associate at the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley) during fieldwork sponsored by George Gustav Heye and his mother, Marie Antoinette Lawrence Heye (1845-1915).
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- Catalog Number
- 2/4027
- Barcode
- 024027.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Burden basket
- Media/Materials
- Vegetal Fiber
- Techniques
- Wicker-plaited
- Place
- Río Cayapas; Esmeraldas Province; Ecuador
- See related items
- Chachilla (Cayapas)
- Containers and Vessels
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_25659
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6b66f7309-4db5-4373-b0cb-08aa5a77a9c5
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