Scoop

Museum number:
1-144972
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010144972
Alternate number:
36 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1621
Description:
Twined basketry scoop. Reinforcing rod across back.
Donor:
Hamilton Hess
Collection place:
Great Basin, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Mono
Collector:
Frederick M. Hess
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1952
Context of use:
For parching and hulling pinon nuts.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 23 inches
Loans:
S1967-1968 #137: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (May 15, 1968–May 28, 1968)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Scoop, accession number 1-144972, described as Twined basketry scoop. Reinforcing rod across back.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Scoop, accession number 1-144972, described as Twined basketry scoop. Reinforcing rod across back.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Scoop, accession number 1-144972, described as Twined basketry scoop. Reinforcing rod across back.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Scoop, accession number 1-144972, described as Twined basketry scoop. Reinforcing rod across back.

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