Basket

Museum number:
1-255582a-c
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm2101255582a@2dc
Accession number:
Acc.4026
Description:
(a) Basket. Round with incurving sides at lower edge, shallow pedestal, flat bottom; pattern of alternating circular bands of dark brown and natural. (b) Lid flat with edge which fits inside basket. (c) Handle in center is broken and detached. Coiled, made with redbud, peeled shoot.
Donor:
Lillian Strang
Collection place:
Cassel, Shasta County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Shasta; Cassel
Culture or time period:
Atsugewi
Collector:
Morris Riskin and Old Lady Buckskin
Collection date:
1925
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
(a)— diameter 20 centimeters, (b)— diameter 21.5 centimeters, and (a)— height 9.7 centimeters
Comment:
See accession envelope for letter from donor concerning collection and notes by L.E. Dawson on attribution.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-255582a-c, described as (a) Basket. Round with incurving sides at lower edge, shallow pedestal, flat bottom; pattern of alternating circular bands of dark brown and natural. (b) Lid flat with edge which fits inside basket. (c) Handle in center is broken and detached. Coiled, made with redbud, peeled shoot.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-255582a-c, described as (a) Basket. Round with incurving sides at lower edge, shallow pedestal, flat bottom; pattern of alternating circular bands of dark brown and natural. (b) Lid flat with edge which fits inside basket. (c) Handle in center is broken and detached. Coiled, made with redbud, peeled shoot.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-255582a-c, described as (a) Basket. Round with incurving sides at lower edge, shallow pedestal, flat bottom; pattern of alternating circular bands of dark brown and natural. (b) Lid flat with edge which fits inside basket. (c) Handle in center is broken and detached. Coiled, made with redbud, peeled shoot.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-255582a-c, described as (a) Basket. Round with incurving sides at lower edge, shallow pedestal, flat bottom; pattern of alternating circular bands of dark brown and natural. (b) Lid flat with edge which fits inside basket. (c) Handle in center is broken and detached. Coiled, made with redbud, peeled shoot.

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