Basket

Museum number:
1-71433
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010071433
Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Coiled on bundle foundation, with interlocking stitches and herringbone border stitch; tray-shaped. Decoration: crossing diagonal lines of black "flying geese" on upper portion of tray. Made of split shoots and bracken fern root.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 6 centimeters and diameter 46.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-71433, described as Coiled on bundle foundation, with interlocking stitches and herringbone border stitch; tray-shaped. Decoration: crossing diagonal lines of black "flying geese" on upper portion of tray. Made of split shoots and bracken fern root.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-71433, described as Coiled on bundle foundation, with interlocking stitches and herringbone border stitch; tray-shaped. Decoration: crossing diagonal lines of black "flying geese" on upper portion of tray. Made of split shoots and bracken fern root.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-71433, described as Coiled on bundle foundation, with interlocking stitches and herringbone border stitch; tray-shaped. Decoration: crossing diagonal lines of black "flying geese" on upper portion of tray. Made of split shoots and bracken fern root.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71433, described as Coiled on bundle foundation, with interlocking stitches and herringbone border stitch; tray-shaped. Decoration: crossing diagonal lines of black "flying geese" on upper portion of tray. Made of split shoots and bracken fern root.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71433, described as Coiled on bundle foundation, with interlocking stitches and herringbone border stitch; tray-shaped. Decoration: crossing diagonal lines of black "flying geese" on upper portion of tray. Made of split shoots and bracken fern root.

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