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Start Over Collector Lawrence E. Dawson Function 1.5 Household
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 3-30377, described as woven wool bag with woven handles, tied together to form a loop. natural tan and brown wool woven as a single rectangular piece then folded at center and closed at each side with hand stitching. patterns include: i) herringbone, continuous wave, bands, geometric diamonds with multiple borders on one side, ii) herringbone, continuous wave, bands and stars (8-pointed) divided by zigzags and embellished in negative space with diamonds and crosses. applied handles.
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 16-20600, described as wool, woven bag with out handles. made of a woven strip 76cm long, folded at center then sewn together along each side. weaving is in stripes of varying widths - brown, tan, beige.
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 16-20601, described as large woven bag made from 1 long woven strip 197cm long, folded in the middle then sewn along both edges. no handles; selvage edge at top, natural wool; brown dark brown, tan, gray brown, in variegated width stripes.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-34274, described as Scoop-shaped, twined.
Hearst Museum object titled Case, accession number 10-3459a,b, described as basketry case (a) with lid (b), finely woven then sealed. a) fabric covered impregnated with a black resin which has dried hard and some-what shiny. bottom of case is rectangular, slightly tapered and with 2 raised bands at base of neck and 3.5cm from base on the outside. b) the lid, also tapered from the opening also has a raised band at the lip and another 3cm from the top.
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking stone, accession number 2-69175, described as Rock which has been melted; porous in quite a few places, greyish-black in color; melted on sand on great deal of body surface. Used in mescal roasting pits by the Yavapai Indians. In early spring the just emerging mescal flower shoots were gathered and placed in the roasting pits where these rocks were heated in a big bonfire. Due to the extreme heat, some rocks melted like this one.
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking stone, accession number 2-69174, described as Rock which has been melted; porous in a few places, red and greyish-black in color; some sand which was melted on one side. Used in mescal roasting pits by the Yavapai Indians. In early spring the just emerging mescal flower shoots were gathered and placed in the roasting pits where these rocks were heated in a big bonfire. Due to the extreme heat, some rocks melted.

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