Collection place: Chicken Ranch, Tuolumne County, California / Donor: Phoebe Apperson Hearst / Accession number: Acc.216 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-10171, described as Made of bone.

Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-10187, described as Made of bone, cloth wrapped handle.

Hearst Museum object titled Bark, accession number 1-10372, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; Alnus rhombifolia (?). Live oak bark.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-10174, described as Basket; Warp is Epicampes weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Wide-mouthed with flaring sides. Decoration: diagonally crossing bands of black "flying geese." Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Rim is damaged at several spots.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-10167, described as Receptacle basket; twined. Warp is unpeeled Willow (Salix), weft is Pine (Pinus). Small and conical in shape. A cloth strap attached to the rim attests to its having been hung when in use. Coarse, open diagonal twine, with 3 rows of plain twine beneath the rim. The bark on the materials is both stripped and unstripped (warp) and, in the case of the weft material, stripped until near the rim, where reddish-colored bark provides a contrast with the light-colored (and stripped) weft.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry material, accession number 1-10199, described as Bundle of split young pine shoots. Probably gray pine. Native name: "saku". Used as white material in basketry.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry material, accession number 1-10198, described as Roll of split twigs.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry material, accession number 1-10373a-c, described as Bundle of milkweed stems; Asclepias cordifolia. Used as string material; milkweed roots also have medicinal uses.