Basket

Museum number:
1-71234
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010071234
Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Sifter, open diagonal twined. Decoration: warp and half of weft materials are in red, while other half of weft material is in white.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Context of use:
Used in harvesting/preparation of seeds - seeds are separated from their outer cases with the use of sifters.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 15 centimeters, diameter 42 centimeters, and width 36 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-71234, described as Sifter, open diagonal twined. Decoration: warp and half of weft materials are in red, while other half of weft material is in white.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-71234, described as Sifter, open diagonal twined. Decoration: warp and half of weft materials are in red, while other half of weft material is in white.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-71234, described as Sifter, open diagonal twined. Decoration: warp and half of weft materials are in red, while other half of weft material is in white.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71234, described as Sifter, open diagonal twined. Decoration: warp and half of weft materials are in red, while other half of weft material is in white.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71234, described as Sifter, open diagonal twined. Decoration: warp and half of weft materials are in red, while other half of weft material is in white.

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