Basket

Museum number:
1-9946
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010009946
Alternate number:
52 (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:
Burden basket, conical in form, twined. Coated with soaproot juice so as to prevent seeds from falling from basket. This juice coating is partially worn off.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Secret Diggings, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Secret Diggings
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used in transporting harvested food products, such as seeds.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Native name and meaning: tci keles. Compare with 1-10239 (burden basket). Missing since at least 1994.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-9946, described as Burden basket, conical in form, twined. Coated with soaproot juice so as to prevent seeds from falling from basket. This juice coating is partially worn off.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-9946, described as Burden basket, conical in form, twined. Coated with soaproot juice so as to prevent seeds from falling from basket. This juice coating is partially worn off.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-9946, described as Burden basket, conical in form, twined. Coated with soaproot juice so as to prevent seeds from falling from basket. This juice coating is partially worn off.

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