Plate basket

Museum number:
1-20914
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010020914
Alternate number:
223;57 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.511
Description:
Coiled basketry tray with brown and black lightning like decoration, "Tarantula" design. One hang tag "Cahuilla att.". Metal tag "223". Tag glued to bottom "223". Other Tag on bottom "223. Property of Mrs. George H. Taylor, Fresno, Cal". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled sifter/parching basket tray. Bundle foundation start is crushed and then it becomes deergrass bundle. The wefts are sumac at the base and the rest is juncus, tan, orange, and black dyed. The design is a black circle and then four sets of three zigzags radiating vertically to the rim. Two of the sets are black and two sets are orange. The weft fag ends are bound under. The workface is on the interior and the work direction is to the right. The rim is plain wrapped with some stitches missing. The coil ending is tapered with herringbone stitches for the last two inches. This is a Southwest California basket, possibly Cahuilla based on the Riverside attribution.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Riverside County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Riverside
Culture or time period:
Cahuilla and Southwest California tribes
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Plate baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 16.75 inches and width 2.5 inches
Comment:
Photo: 15-12302. Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 93
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Plate basket, accession number 1-20914, described as Coiled basketry tray with brown and black lightning like decoration, "Tarantula" design. One hang tag "Cahuilla att.". Metal tag "223". Tag glued to bottom "223". Other Tag on bottom "223. Property of Mrs. George H. Taylor, Fresno, Cal". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled sifter/parching basket tray. Bundle foundation start is crushed and then it becomes deergrass bundle. The wefts are sumac at the base and the rest is juncus, tan, orange, and black dyed. The design is a black circle and then four sets of three zigzags radiating vertically to the rim. Two of the sets are black and two sets are orange. The weft fag ends are bound under. The workface is on the interior and the work direction is to the right. The rim is plain wrapped with some stitches missing. The coil ending is tapered with herringbone stitches for the last two inches. This is a Southwest California basket, possibly Cahuilla based on the Riverside attribution.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Plate basket, accession number 1-20914, described as Coiled basketry tray with brown and black lightning like decoration, "Tarantula" design. One hang tag "Cahuilla att.". Metal tag "223". Tag glued to bottom "223". Other Tag on bottom "223. Property of Mrs. George H. Taylor, Fresno, Cal". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled sifter/parching basket tray. Bundle foundation start is crushed and then it becomes deergrass bundle. The wefts are sumac at the base and the rest is juncus, tan, orange, and black dyed. The design is a black circle and then four sets of three zigzags radiating vertically to the rim. Two of the sets are black and two sets are orange. The weft fag ends are bound under. The workface is on the interior and the work direction is to the right. The rim is plain wrapped with some stitches missing. The coil ending is tapered with herringbone stitches for the last two inches. This is a Southwest California basket, possibly Cahuilla based on the Riverside attribution.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plate basket, accession number 1-20914, described as Coiled basketry tray with brown and black lightning like decoration, "Tarantula" design. One hang tag "Cahuilla att.". Metal tag "223". Tag glued to bottom "223". Other Tag on bottom "223. Property of Mrs. George H. Taylor, Fresno, Cal". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled sifter/parching basket tray. Bundle foundation start is crushed and then it becomes deergrass bundle. The wefts are sumac at the base and the rest is juncus, tan, orange, and black dyed. The design is a black circle and then four sets of three zigzags radiating vertically to the rim. Two of the sets are black and two sets are orange. The weft fag ends are bound under. The workface is on the interior and the work direction is to the right. The rim is plain wrapped with some stitches missing. The coil ending is tapered with herringbone stitches for the last two inches. This is a Southwest California basket, possibly Cahuilla based on the Riverside attribution.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plate basket, accession number 1-20914, described as Coiled basketry tray with brown and black lightning like decoration, "Tarantula" design. One hang tag "Cahuilla att.". Metal tag "223". Tag glued to bottom "223". Other Tag on bottom "223. Property of Mrs. George H. Taylor, Fresno, Cal". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled sifter/parching basket tray. Bundle foundation start is crushed and then it becomes deergrass bundle. The wefts are sumac at the base and the rest is juncus, tan, orange, and black dyed. The design is a black circle and then four sets of three zigzags radiating vertically to the rim. Two of the sets are black and two sets are orange. The weft fag ends are bound under. The workface is on the interior and the work direction is to the right. The rim is plain wrapped with some stitches missing. The coil ending is tapered with herringbone stitches for the last two inches. This is a Southwest California basket, possibly Cahuilla based on the Riverside attribution.

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