Basket

Museum number:
1-144946
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1527
Description:
Twined novelty basket in the form of a flared neck vase. Overlay designs in black fern on Xerophyllum (beargrass) ground. Per Ralph Shanks: Black designs are maidenhair fern stems. There is a reinforcing rod at the rim wrapped in redbud. The base has three strand twining, the sides are plain twined. Atsugewi or other Northeastern California tribe.
Donor:
Howard Moïse
Collection place:
Northeastern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northeastern California tribes
Collector:
Mrs. Robert D. Dunlap
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1962
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 16.25 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-144946, described as Twined novelty basket in the form of a flared neck vase. Overlay designs in black fern on Xerophyllum (beargrass) ground. Per Ralph Shanks: Black designs are maidenhair fern stems. There is a reinforcing rod at the rim wrapped in redbud. The base has three strand twining, the sides are plain twined. Atsugewi or other Northeastern California tribe.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-144946, described as Twined novelty basket in the form of a flared neck vase. Overlay designs in black fern on Xerophyllum (beargrass) ground. Per Ralph Shanks: Black designs are maidenhair fern stems. There is a reinforcing rod at the rim wrapped in redbud. The base has three strand twining, the sides are plain twined. Atsugewi or other Northeastern California tribe.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-144946, described as Twined novelty basket in the form of a flared neck vase. Overlay designs in black fern on Xerophyllum (beargrass) ground. Per Ralph Shanks: Black designs are maidenhair fern stems. There is a reinforcing rod at the rim wrapped in redbud. The base has three strand twining, the sides are plain twined. Atsugewi or other Northeastern California tribe.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-144946, described as Twined novelty basket in the form of a flared neck vase. Overlay designs in black fern on Xerophyllum (beargrass) ground. Per Ralph Shanks: Black designs are maidenhair fern stems. There is a reinforcing rod at the rim wrapped in redbud. The base has three strand twining, the sides are plain twined. Atsugewi or other Northeastern California tribe.

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