Basket
- Museum number:
- 1-214593
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010214593
- Accession number:
- Acc.2011
- Description:
- Coiled. Juncus textilis rush. Narrow band design near rim. Remnants of tick pattern on rim.
- Donor:
- Virginia Wilson
- Collection place:
- Camarillo, Ventura County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Ventura; Camarillo
- Culture or time period:
- Chumash
- Collector:
- George Tasheira
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1965
- Context of use:
- For mush boiling?
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- depth 20.2 centimeters and diameter 42 centimeters
- Comment:
- Native name and meaning: watik. "The design band near the top of the basket had a special technical term tswostolkoy (Ventureno dialect) and was always placed about as far below the rim as the width of the band itself. The design units were called (in Spanish) "venaditos" (little deer).
- Loans:
- S1971-1972 #13: California State University, Sacramento (August 16, 1971–September 9, 1971)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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