Basket

Museum number:
1-194987
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010194987
Alternate number:
2-13578 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.641
Description:
Coiled, globular; 2 standing anthropomorphic figures in black material, 2 abstract figures; geometric red figures.
Donor:
Margaret Corinne Sinclair
Collection place:
Southwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Diegueño and Kumeyaay
Collector:
Margaret Corinne Sinclair
Collection date:
1880-1929
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1929
Context of use:
Used for storage of dry goods whether food or not, designs showed a feast or famine time, every three years feast, every two famine, this basket design used in ceremonies at the brush dance in early summer "solace". Fide James C. Moreno,
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 10.5 centimeters and diameter 17 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-194987, described as Coiled, globular; 2 standing anthropomorphic figures in black material, 2 abstract figures; geometric red figures.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-194987, described as Coiled, globular; 2 standing anthropomorphic figures in black material, 2 abstract figures; geometric red figures.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-194987, described as Coiled, globular; 2 standing anthropomorphic figures in black material, 2 abstract figures; geometric red figures.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-194987, described as Coiled, globular; 2 standing anthropomorphic figures in black material, 2 abstract figures; geometric red figures.

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