Basket

Museum number:
1-71188
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Coiled, wide-mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: Horizontal zigzag consisting of upper red and lower black layers near rim; series of double diamonds arranged in similar zigzag fashion, with both black and red diamonds. Redbud and bracken fern root. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 22 centimeters and 44 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-71188, described as Coiled, wide-mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: Horizontal zigzag consisting of upper red and lower black layers near rim; series of double diamonds arranged in similar zigzag fashion, with both black and red diamonds. Redbud and bracken fern root. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-71188, described as Coiled, wide-mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: Horizontal zigzag consisting of upper red and lower black layers near rim; series of double diamonds arranged in similar zigzag fashion, with both black and red diamonds. Redbud and bracken fern root. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-71188, described as Coiled, wide-mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: Horizontal zigzag consisting of upper red and lower black layers near rim; series of double diamonds arranged in similar zigzag fashion, with both black and red diamonds. Redbud and bracken fern root. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71188, described as Coiled, wide-mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: Horizontal zigzag consisting of upper red and lower black layers near rim; series of double diamonds arranged in similar zigzag fashion, with both black and red diamonds. Redbud and bracken fern root. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71188, described as Coiled, wide-mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: Horizontal zigzag consisting of upper red and lower black layers near rim; series of double diamonds arranged in similar zigzag fashion, with both black and red diamonds. Redbud and bracken fern root. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.

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