Seed beater

Museum number:
1-53986
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010053986
Alternate number:
3 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1941F
Description:
Openwork, twined. Tag "#3" second tag “Maidu". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork plain twined basket seed beater, used and has residue. Peeled shoots for the warps and whole and split peeled shoots for the wefts. There is a reinforcing rod at the rim that may have once been connected but is broken, and is wrapped on with peeled shoots. There is cloth tied at the handle. The rim is wrapped at bottom of the basket. Primarily there are two warps wrapped in the wefts. There are primarily convergent warps. The weft strands vary between double and single strand. The starting knot started at the handle. The basket has a down to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is probably not Sierra Miwok and is possibly from Eastern Central California in origin, maybe Maidu based on the slant of weft twist and the tag on the basket. The shape is also the shape of a typical Maidu seed beater.
Donor:
R. B. Bernard
Collection place:
Indian Valley, Plumas County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Plumas; Indian Valley
Culture or time period:
North Central California tribes
Collector:
R. B. Bernard
Collection date:
1930
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Seed beaters, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
April 19, 1941
Context of use:
Used for drying venison.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 55.5 centimeters and width 40 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Seed beater, accession number 1-53986, described as Openwork, twined. Tag "#3" second tag “Maidu". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork plain twined basket seed beater, used and has residue. Peeled shoots for the warps and whole and split peeled shoots for the wefts. There is a reinforcing rod at the rim that may have once been connected but is broken, and is wrapped on with peeled shoots. There is cloth tied at the handle. The rim is wrapped at bottom of the basket. Primarily there are two warps wrapped in the wefts. There are primarily convergent warps. The weft strands vary between double and single strand. The starting knot started at the handle. The basket has a down to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is probably not Sierra Miwok and is possibly from Eastern Central California in origin, maybe Maidu based on the slant of weft twist and the tag on the basket. The shape is also the shape of a typical Maidu seed beater.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Seed beater, accession number 1-53986, described as Openwork, twined. Tag "#3" second tag “Maidu". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork plain twined basket seed beater, used and has residue. Peeled shoots for the warps and whole and split peeled shoots for the wefts. There is a reinforcing rod at the rim that may have once been connected but is broken, and is wrapped on with peeled shoots. There is cloth tied at the handle. The rim is wrapped at bottom of the basket. Primarily there are two warps wrapped in the wefts. There are primarily convergent warps. The weft strands vary between double and single strand. The starting knot started at the handle. The basket has a down to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is probably not Sierra Miwok and is possibly from Eastern Central California in origin, maybe Maidu based on the slant of weft twist and the tag on the basket. The shape is also the shape of a typical Maidu seed beater.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-53986, described as Openwork, twined. Tag "#3" second tag “Maidu". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork plain twined basket seed beater, used and has residue. Peeled shoots for the warps and whole and split peeled shoots for the wefts. There is a reinforcing rod at the rim that may have once been connected but is broken, and is wrapped on with peeled shoots. There is cloth tied at the handle. The rim is wrapped at bottom of the basket. Primarily there are two warps wrapped in the wefts. There are primarily convergent warps. The weft strands vary between double and single strand. The starting knot started at the handle. The basket has a down to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is probably not Sierra Miwok and is possibly from Eastern Central California in origin, maybe Maidu based on the slant of weft twist and the tag on the basket. The shape is also the shape of a typical Maidu seed beater.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-53986, described as Openwork, twined. Tag "#3" second tag “Maidu". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork plain twined basket seed beater, used and has residue. Peeled shoots for the warps and whole and split peeled shoots for the wefts. There is a reinforcing rod at the rim that may have once been connected but is broken, and is wrapped on with peeled shoots. There is cloth tied at the handle. The rim is wrapped at bottom of the basket. Primarily there are two warps wrapped in the wefts. There are primarily convergent warps. The weft strands vary between double and single strand. The starting knot started at the handle. The basket has a down to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is probably not Sierra Miwok and is possibly from Eastern Central California in origin, maybe Maidu based on the slant of weft twist and the tag on the basket. The shape is also the shape of a typical Maidu seed beater.

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