Basket

Museum number:
1-71638
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Coiled; wide mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: diagonal zigzags, arrowheads, and a band of connected rectangular forms beneath the rim - all designs are in brown. Made of grass and bracken fern root. Coiled on a grass bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
unknown
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 15.2 centimeters and diameter 31 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 8 titled Basket, accession number 1-71638, described as Coiled; wide mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: diagonal zigzags, arrowheads, and a band of connected rectangular forms beneath the rim - all designs are in brown. Made of grass and bracken fern root. Coiled on a grass bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.Hearst Museum object 2 of 8 titled Basket, accession number 1-71638, described as Coiled; wide mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: diagonal zigzags, arrowheads, and a band of connected rectangular forms beneath the rim - all designs are in brown. Made of grass and bracken fern root. Coiled on a grass bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.Hearst Museum object 3 of 8 titled Basket, accession number 1-71638, described as Coiled; wide mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: diagonal zigzags, arrowheads, and a band of connected rectangular forms beneath the rim - all designs are in brown. Made of grass and bracken fern root. Coiled on a grass bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.Hearst Museum object 4 of 8 titled Basket, accession number 1-71638, described as Coiled; wide mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: diagonal zigzags, arrowheads, and a band of connected rectangular forms beneath the rim - all designs are in brown. Made of grass and bracken fern root. Coiled on a grass bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.Hearst Museum object 5 of 8 titled Basket, accession number 1-71638, described as Coiled; wide mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: diagonal zigzags, arrowheads, and a band of connected rectangular forms beneath the rim - all designs are in brown. Made of grass and bracken fern root. Coiled on a grass bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.Hearst Museum object 6 of 8 titled Basket, accession number 1-71638, described as Coiled; wide mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: diagonal zigzags, arrowheads, and a band of connected rectangular forms beneath the rim - all designs are in brown. Made of grass and bracken fern root. Coiled on a grass bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.Hearst Museum object 7 of 8 titled Basket, accession number 1-71638, described as Coiled; wide mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: diagonal zigzags, arrowheads, and a band of connected rectangular forms beneath the rim - all designs are in brown. Made of grass and bracken fern root. Coiled on a grass bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.Hearst Museum object 8 of 8 titled Basket, accession number 1-71638, described as Coiled; wide mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: diagonal zigzags, arrowheads, and a band of connected rectangular forms beneath the rim - all designs are in brown. Made of grass and bracken fern root. Coiled on a grass bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71638, described as Coiled; wide mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: diagonal zigzags, arrowheads, and a band of connected rectangular forms beneath the rim - all designs are in brown. Made of grass and bracken fern root. Coiled on a grass bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71638, described as Coiled; wide mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: diagonal zigzags, arrowheads, and a band of connected rectangular forms beneath the rim - all designs are in brown. Made of grass and bracken fern root. Coiled on a grass bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.

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