Basket

Museum number:
1-255472
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3853
Description:
Round with concave bottom, geometric design alternating with heart design in dark brown on natural colored ground. Plain twined. Coiled rim. Peeled shoot warp with tule root weft and overlay of redbud and maidenhair fern.
Donor:
Edward Briles
Collection place:
Alturas, Modoc County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Modoc; Alturas
Culture or time period:
Atsugewi
Collector:
Rosa Gibbons Briles
Collection date:
1900-1920
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers), Coiled weaving, and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
August 31, 1983
Context of use:
Made for tourist trade.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 13 centimeters and diameter 15 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-255472, described as Round with concave bottom, geometric design alternating with heart design in dark brown on natural colored ground. Plain twined. Coiled rim. Peeled shoot warp with tule root weft and overlay of redbud and maidenhair fern.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-255472, described as Round with concave bottom, geometric design alternating with heart design in dark brown on natural colored ground. Plain twined. Coiled rim. Peeled shoot warp with tule root weft and overlay of redbud and maidenhair fern.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-255472, described as Round with concave bottom, geometric design alternating with heart design in dark brown on natural colored ground. Plain twined. Coiled rim. Peeled shoot warp with tule root weft and overlay of redbud and maidenhair fern.

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