Dipper

Museum number:
1-2497
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Alternate number:
131 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.75 and Acc.87
Description:
Acorn soup dipper basket; twined. Warp and weft are possibly Sugar pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Hupa
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1902
Taxon:
Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903 and February 25, 1903
Context of use:
For serving flour.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 16.7 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 95
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Dipper, accession number 1-2497, described as Acorn soup dipper basket; twined. Warp and weft are possibly Sugar pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Dipper, accession number 1-2497, described as Acorn soup dipper basket; twined. Warp and weft are possibly Sugar pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dipper, accession number 1-2497, described as Acorn soup dipper basket; twined. Warp and weft are possibly Sugar pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dipper, accession number 1-2497, described as Acorn soup dipper basket; twined. Warp and weft are possibly Sugar pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).

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