Basket

Museum number:
1-236809
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
27 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2802
Description:
Twined, shouldered bottle shape with 5 horizontal bands of black patterns on natural ground and 3 rows of 3-strand twining on shoulder. Unpitched. Weave: diagonal twining and 3-strand twining, warp peeled willow shoots. Weft: split peeled willow shoot. Design in bracken fern root and split redbud shoots.
Donor:
Mrs. George H. Crooks
Collection place:
Owens Valley, Inyo County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
Collected in Ahwahnee
Culture or time period:
Eastern Mono
Collector:
Mrs. W. M. Sell and Mr. W. M. Sell
Collection date:
1903-1905
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
Made for sale.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 26.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-236809, described as Twined, shouldered bottle shape with 5 horizontal bands of black patterns on natural ground and 3 rows of 3-strand twining on shoulder. Unpitched. Weave: diagonal twining and 3-strand twining, warp peeled willow shoots. Weft: split peeled willow shoot. Design in bracken fern root and split redbud shoots.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-236809, described as Twined, shouldered bottle shape with 5 horizontal bands of black patterns on natural ground and 3 rows of 3-strand twining on shoulder. Unpitched. Weave: diagonal twining and 3-strand twining, warp peeled willow shoots. Weft: split peeled willow shoot. Design in bracken fern root and split redbud shoots.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-236809, described as Twined, shouldered bottle shape with 5 horizontal bands of black patterns on natural ground and 3 rows of 3-strand twining on shoulder. Unpitched. Weave: diagonal twining and 3-strand twining, warp peeled willow shoots. Weft: split peeled willow shoot. Design in bracken fern root and split redbud shoots.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-236809, described as Twined, shouldered bottle shape with 5 horizontal bands of black patterns on natural ground and 3 rows of 3-strand twining on shoulder. Unpitched. Weave: diagonal twining and 3-strand twining, warp peeled willow shoots. Weft: split peeled willow shoot. Design in bracken fern root and split redbud shoots.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-236809, described as Twined, shouldered bottle shape with 5 horizontal bands of black patterns on natural ground and 3 rows of 3-strand twining on shoulder. Unpitched. Weave: diagonal twining and 3-strand twining, warp peeled willow shoots. Weft: split peeled willow shoot. Design in bracken fern root and split redbud shoots.

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