Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-27935
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
5 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.644
Description:
Design: deer excorta. Globular shape. In good condition. Twined. Almost completely covered with 2-faced overlay. Thin stripes at rim. Design on white ground: diagonally stacked striped rectangles create stepped vertical zigzags; dotted stripes on bottom. Mostly plain twined. 3-strand twining occurs: 1.5 cm radius from start; 2-2.5 cm from start; 2 rows at 3.5 cm from start; 2 rows at about 7 cm from start.
Donor:
Cora Alice DuBois and University Appropriation
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northern Wintun
Collector:
Cora Alice DuBois
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1930
Context of use:
For cooking.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
6.5 inches and diameter 7 inches
Comment:
Native name: "Kolom" Design name: "nopum-genesir
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-27935, described as Design: deer excorta. Globular shape. In good condition. Twined. Almost completely covered with 2-faced overlay. Thin stripes at rim. Design on white ground: diagonally stacked striped rectangles create stepped vertical zigzags; dotted stripes on bottom. Mostly plain twined. 3-strand twining occurs: 1.5 cm radius from start; 2-2.5 cm from start; 2 rows at 3.5 cm from start; 2 rows at about 7 cm from start.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-27935, described as Design: deer excorta. Globular shape. In good condition. Twined. Almost completely covered with 2-faced overlay. Thin stripes at rim. Design on white ground: diagonally stacked striped rectangles create stepped vertical zigzags; dotted stripes on bottom. Mostly plain twined. 3-strand twining occurs: 1.5 cm radius from start; 2-2.5 cm from start; 2 rows at 3.5 cm from start; 2 rows at about 7 cm from start.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-27935, described as Design: deer excorta. Globular shape. In good condition. Twined. Almost completely covered with 2-faced overlay. Thin stripes at rim. Design on white ground: diagonally stacked striped rectangles create stepped vertical zigzags; dotted stripes on bottom. Mostly plain twined. 3-strand twining occurs: 1.5 cm radius from start; 2-2.5 cm from start; 2 rows at 3.5 cm from start; 2 rows at about 7 cm from start.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-27935, described as Design: deer excorta. Globular shape. In good condition. Twined. Almost completely covered with 2-faced overlay. Thin stripes at rim. Design on white ground: diagonally stacked striped rectangles create stepped vertical zigzags; dotted stripes on bottom. Mostly plain twined. 3-strand twining occurs: 1.5 cm radius from start; 2-2.5 cm from start; 2 rows at 3.5 cm from start; 2 rows at about 7 cm from start.

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