Basket

Museum number:
1-235178
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3140
Description:
Coiled. Formerly fully feathered. Globular basket with stepped rectangle designs in dark material, remnants of quail topknots, stubs of red feathers. Note inside states: " Quail tops. Yellow ones are the breast of larks. The red ones Woodpecker heads. The blue ones are ducks.
Donor:
Annette C. Waite
Collection place:
Lake County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Lake
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Brother of Mrs. Waite's Great Grandmother
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Context of use:
Made for gifts and for burning at funerals.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
11 centimeters and diameter 9.7 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-235178, described as Coiled. Formerly fully feathered. Globular basket with stepped rectangle designs in dark material, remnants of quail topknots, stubs of red feathers. Note inside states: " Quail tops. Yellow ones are the breast of larks. The red ones Woodpecker heads. The blue ones are ducks.

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