IDNO

P.8436.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Basketry designs of the Salish Indians. Z. Farrand. Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. II. Anthrop. Jesup N Pacific Ex. 5. 1900, pl. xxii.”

Place

N America; Canada; United States of America; British Columbia; Victoria; National Museum of the American Indian

Cultural Affliation

Salish; Salishan; Northwest Coast Indians

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

1897 - 1900

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Eleven volumes of the ‘Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Jesup North Pacific Expedition’, edited by Franz Boas, were published between 1898 and 1930. See reference in Description. Research was done by, among others, Livingston Farrand. Farrand was from Columbia University and wrote on the traditions of the Chilcotin and Quinault and on the basketry designs of several Salish groups. See Kendall.L et al. 1997: 8; 10.