Basket

Museum number:
1-70411
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010070411
Alternate number:
61 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Coiled, flat bottom, flaring sides. Diagonal triangular designs in redbud and bracken fern root. Sedge root with designs in redbud and bracken fern root. Coiling on grass bundle foundation.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
Before 1945
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Context of use:
Mush boiling basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 12.5 centimeters and diameter 32 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-70411, described as Coiled, flat bottom, flaring sides. Diagonal triangular designs in redbud and bracken fern root. Sedge root with designs in redbud and bracken fern root. Coiling on grass bundle foundation.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-70411, described as Coiled, flat bottom, flaring sides. Diagonal triangular designs in redbud and bracken fern root. Sedge root with designs in redbud and bracken fern root. Coiling on grass bundle foundation.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-70411, described as Coiled, flat bottom, flaring sides. Diagonal triangular designs in redbud and bracken fern root. Sedge root with designs in redbud and bracken fern root. Coiling on grass bundle foundation.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-70411, described as Coiled, flat bottom, flaring sides. Diagonal triangular designs in redbud and bracken fern root. Sedge root with designs in redbud and bracken fern root. Coiling on grass bundle foundation.

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