Basket

Museum number:
1-255523
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3944
Description:
Plain twined. Round with incurving sides, flat bottom, diagonal rhomboid design in brown on natural colored ground. Bottom and rim broken. Peeled shoot warp with tule root weft and overlay of redbud.
Donor:
Nancy Downey and Virginia Roush
Collection place:
Northeastern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Atsugewi
Collector:
Rowena Beans
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Context of use:
Larry Dawson states that specimen appears to be a genuine old-time treasure basket from an Indian household.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 18 centimeters and diameter 21 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-255523, described as Plain twined. Round with incurving sides, flat bottom, diagonal rhomboid design in brown on natural colored ground. Bottom and rim broken. Peeled shoot warp with tule root weft and overlay of redbud.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-255523, described as Plain twined. Round with incurving sides, flat bottom, diagonal rhomboid design in brown on natural colored ground. Bottom and rim broken. Peeled shoot warp with tule root weft and overlay of redbud.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-255523, described as Plain twined. Round with incurving sides, flat bottom, diagonal rhomboid design in brown on natural colored ground. Bottom and rim broken. Peeled shoot warp with tule root weft and overlay of redbud.

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