Basket

Museum number:
1-9935
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010009935
Alternate number:
41 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
Coiled; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: black diamonds arranged in a 3-lobed diagonal zigzag which encircles basket. Design material is bracken fern root. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Ione, Amador County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Amador; Ione
Culture or time period:
Plains Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used as a soup or water basket - described as a "mushbowl.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 19 centimeters and diameter 40.5 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "pulakka" - generic term for kind of basket. Materials, techniques: For further information, cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 42. Photo: 15-5972. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 46.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-9935, described as Coiled; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: black diamonds arranged in a 3-lobed diagonal zigzag which encircles basket. Design material is bracken fern root. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-9935, described as Coiled; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: black diamonds arranged in a 3-lobed diagonal zigzag which encircles basket. Design material is bracken fern root. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-9935, described as Coiled; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: black diamonds arranged in a 3-lobed diagonal zigzag which encircles basket. Design material is bracken fern root. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-9935, described as Coiled; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: black diamonds arranged in a 3-lobed diagonal zigzag which encircles basket. Design material is bracken fern root. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.

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