Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-10099
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010099
Alternate number:
214 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flaring, 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Decoration: dark brown horizontal zigzag design.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Sheep Ranch, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Sheep Ranch
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Limpy and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Brake fern and Maple (wood)
Taxon:
Acer macrophyllum, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 27.5 centimeters and height 14 centimeters
Comment:
Described by Samuel A. Barrett in 1906 as being "new" and "coarse." Native name and meaning: "esellu" or "esellu ti himma"; brackenfern root - "kepiku" or "sina" and maple - "saiyi". Limpy "explains that it is made twisted partly, but one part goes up and starts back in reverse direction" in a technique known as "loyaa".
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10099, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flaring, 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Decoration: dark brown horizontal zigzag design.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10099, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flaring, 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Decoration: dark brown horizontal zigzag design.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10099, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flaring, 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Decoration: dark brown horizontal zigzag design.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10099, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flaring, 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Decoration: dark brown horizontal zigzag design.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10099, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flaring, 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Decoration: dark brown horizontal zigzag design.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10099, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flaring, 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Decoration: dark brown horizontal zigzag design.

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