Basket

Museum number:
1-236841
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
32 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2802
Description:
Coiled. Low sub-globular shape. Design: black pattern of checks in ascending diagonal rows and 4 quadrangles near rim. Grass bundle foundation with sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots.
Donor:
Mrs. George H. Crooks
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
Collected in Ahwahnee
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Mrs. W. M. Sell and Mr. W. M. Sell
Collection date:
1903-1905
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
Made for sale.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8.5 centimeters and diameter 16 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-236841, described as Coiled. Low sub-globular shape. Design: black pattern of checks in ascending diagonal rows and 4 quadrangles near rim. Grass bundle foundation with sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-236841, described as Coiled. Low sub-globular shape. Design: black pattern of checks in ascending diagonal rows and 4 quadrangles near rim. Grass bundle foundation with sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-236841, described as Coiled. Low sub-globular shape. Design: black pattern of checks in ascending diagonal rows and 4 quadrangles near rim. Grass bundle foundation with sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots.

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