Donor: Estate of Karin Nelson / Materials: Cotton (textile) (cotton thread, wefts) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, gamakoshigo, accession number 9-22877, described as A woven basket. It is lightweight, thus, ideal for mountain work where it was used for gathering fuki, butterbur, takenoko, bamboo shoots, zenmai, fiddlehead fern tips and warabi, bracken root. It was durable enough to last 2 to 3 years in daily use.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, shoitengo, accession number 9-22876, described as A woven basket.