FMNH 114377.nosub[1]

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum subject code written in red] 34-18 | County: Luzon Isld., Philippine Islands. | Locality: Cagayan River. ? | People: Ilongot. | Name: Basket. Squarish, pliable body. Of woven, split palm leaf. Rim stitched with split bark. Ornamented with strips of colored cotton and string of Job's tears, alternating with tubular beads of grass. Ordinary tying string. (over) | Collection: R.F. Cummings Expedition, (Wm. Jones, Collector 1908=09). | Notes: | Width: 12 cm | Length: | Height: 14 cm | Price: | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 114377 | ENT | Neg. Alb. p. 427 | Acc. 1096 | [ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] | [BACK] Baskets fitted with small cords, which pass around the waist, are carried at the side or against one hip. In them the women carry seed rice at planting time, or sugar cane and the like when on the trail. | [1 photograph] |
Catalog Number: 114377.nosub[1]
Description: basket
Materials: palm leaf, bark, cotton, seed (Coix lacryma-jobi / Job's tears), grass, string
Cultural Attribution: Ilongot
Accession Number: [1096] Ethnological Expedition to Luzon, Philippine Islands, to collect materials after the death of William Jones - Igorot Tribe; Ilongot Indians (Expedition)
Accession Year:
District/County: Cagayan River
Collector/Source: Ethnological Expedition to Luzon, Philippine Islands, to collect materials after the death of William Jones - Igorot Tribe; Ilongot Indians, Mr. Willard Jones : Kavilco Incorporated, Stephen C. Simms : The Field Museum
EMu IRN: 1015146
GUID: 23dff95c-faef-472a-b3ba-bf31a72be80a

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