Basket

Museum number:
2-51747
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020051747
Alternate number:
1 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2563
Description:
Coiled oval rye grass basket with blue and red thread decoration below rim and blue thread woven in at bottom center.
Donor:
Mr. W. W. Lyman, Sarah A. Lyman, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Mr. W. W. Lyman
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1969
Context of use:
Novelty.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 10.3 centimeters, length 17.5 centimeters, and height 4 centimeters
Comment:
W.W. Lyman "said this is a Lake Miwok basket made by Lucy Knight but this is incorrect" (fide Barbara Busch/Lawrence E. Dawson).
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-51747, described as Coiled oval rye grass basket with blue and red thread decoration below rim and blue thread woven in at bottom center.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-51747, described as Coiled oval rye grass basket with blue and red thread decoration below rim and blue thread woven in at bottom center.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-51747, described as Coiled oval rye grass basket with blue and red thread decoration below rim and blue thread woven in at bottom center.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-51747, described as Coiled oval rye grass basket with blue and red thread decoration below rim and blue thread woven in at bottom center.

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