Basket

Museum number:
1-241861
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010241861
Alternate number:
14" (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3261
Description:
Coiled, truncated conical shape, designs of diagonally stacked red parallelograms flanked by double black outlines, quail plume elements on the left margins. 4-color scheme: red and black designs on tan and straw-colored ground. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge root (ground), peeled sumac shoots (in design), bracken fern root black, and Joshua tree root red. Bottom rotted and badly damaged.
Donor:
Yosemite National Park Museum
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Tübatulabal
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1975
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Context of use:
In the form of mush boilder, but shows no sign of such use; probably bought new.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 12 centimeters and width 33.5 centimeters
Comment:
Context of use: Made by women.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-241861, described as Coiled, truncated conical shape, designs of diagonally stacked red parallelograms flanked by double black outlines, quail plume elements on the left margins. 4-color scheme: red and black designs on tan and straw-colored ground. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge root (ground), peeled sumac shoots (in design), bracken fern root black, and Joshua tree root red. Bottom rotted and badly damaged.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-241861, described as Coiled, truncated conical shape, designs of diagonally stacked red parallelograms flanked by double black outlines, quail plume elements on the left margins. 4-color scheme: red and black designs on tan and straw-colored ground. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge root (ground), peeled sumac shoots (in design), bracken fern root black, and Joshua tree root red. Bottom rotted and badly damaged.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-241861, described as Coiled, truncated conical shape, designs of diagonally stacked red parallelograms flanked by double black outlines, quail plume elements on the left margins. 4-color scheme: red and black designs on tan and straw-colored ground. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge root (ground), peeled sumac shoots (in design), bracken fern root black, and Joshua tree root red. Bottom rotted and badly damaged.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-241861, described as Coiled, truncated conical shape, designs of diagonally stacked red parallelograms flanked by double black outlines, quail plume elements on the left margins. 4-color scheme: red and black designs on tan and straw-colored ground. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge root (ground), peeled sumac shoots (in design), bracken fern root black, and Joshua tree root red. Bottom rotted and badly damaged.

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