Basket

Museum number:
1-255380
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3290 and Acc.3768
Description:
Basin-shaped lattice twined basket with two encircling bands (1 alternating light and dark parallelograms, 1 alternating light and dark rectangles). Large area missing from rim, minor rim damage on rest of specimen. Made with lattice twining in sedge root and split pine root.
Donor:
Anne Protopopoff and Marceline Crane
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northern Pomo and Pomo
Collector:
Mrs. George A. Hooper
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Context of use:
Meal shaker/winnower.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 54 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-255380, described as Basin-shaped lattice twined basket with two encircling bands (1 alternating light and dark parallelograms, 1 alternating light and dark rectangles). Large area missing from rim, minor rim damage on rest of specimen. Made with lattice twining in sedge root and split pine root.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-255380, described as Basin-shaped lattice twined basket with two encircling bands (1 alternating light and dark parallelograms, 1 alternating light and dark rectangles). Large area missing from rim, minor rim damage on rest of specimen. Made with lattice twining in sedge root and split pine root.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-255380, described as Basin-shaped lattice twined basket with two encircling bands (1 alternating light and dark parallelograms, 1 alternating light and dark rectangles). Large area missing from rim, minor rim damage on rest of specimen. Made with lattice twining in sedge root and split pine root.

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