Basket

Museum number:
1-10442
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010442
Alternate number:
454 (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:
Mush basket, 3-rod coiling with non-interlocking stitches, with flaring sides and a mended base. Decoration: horizontal black zigzags. Base is mended.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Mariposa, Mariposa County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mariposa; Mariposa
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Described by Samuel A. Barrett in 1906 as being "very old". Native name: "soyun". Materials: cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 76. Remarks: "This is a traded piece" "The bottom at first sight appears to be a base sewn on from another basket, but this cannot be the case, as the rule that stitches are pinched more at the top indicates a reweaving job from the edge of the break toward the center. The motivation for weaving in a design is a mystery. The rightwards work direction of the mend is counter to what was called for and likewise is unexplained." Conservation: Orginally, Samuel A. Barrett thought that an entirely new bottom had been sewn into the basket and that this second bottom had worn through.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-10442, described as Mush basket, 3-rod coiling with non-interlocking stitches, with flaring sides and a mended base. Decoration: horizontal black zigzags. Base is mended.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-10442, described as Mush basket, 3-rod coiling with non-interlocking stitches, with flaring sides and a mended base. Decoration: horizontal black zigzags. Base is mended.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-10442, described as Mush basket, 3-rod coiling with non-interlocking stitches, with flaring sides and a mended base. Decoration: horizontal black zigzags. Base is mended.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-10442, described as Mush basket, 3-rod coiling with non-interlocking stitches, with flaring sides and a mended base. Decoration: horizontal black zigzags. Base is mended.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-10442, described as Mush basket, 3-rod coiling with non-interlocking stitches, with flaring sides and a mended base. Decoration: horizontal black zigzags. Base is mended.

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