Basket

Museum number:
1-164123
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1780
Description:
Plain twining technique with overlay designs. White ground. Top band has repeated black motif, a "foot" design variant. Below: center design is of a double row of diagonally connected squares which zigzags. This is paralleled by a V-shape above on 2 sides. Lowest design parallels zigzags of the middle motif. It is of diagonally running parallelograms bisected by a diagonal line. Mostly plain twined; some 3-strand twining. Hoop stitched onto top to form rim. A loop of native twine, 3-ply, is attached.
Donor:
Mrs. Robert Griesche
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wintu
Collector:
Mrs. Robert Griesche
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.2 Gathering
Accession date:
1963
Context of use:
For gathering seeds.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
43 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "Association of the features of 2-face overlay with use of alder-dyed woodwardia fern material particular to the N. Wintun.
Loans:
S1971-1972 #53: UC Berkeley Extension/Daphne D. Stern (November 18, 1971–November 18, 1971)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-164123, described as Plain twining technique with overlay designs. White ground. Top band has repeated black motif, a "foot" design variant. Below: center design is of a double row of diagonally connected squares which zigzags. This is paralleled by a V-shape above on 2 sides. Lowest design parallels zigzags of the middle motif. It is of diagonally running parallelograms bisected by a diagonal line. Mostly plain twined; some 3-strand twining. Hoop stitched onto top to form rim. A loop of native twine, 3-ply, is attached.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-164123, described as Plain twining technique with overlay designs. White ground. Top band has repeated black motif, a "foot" design variant. Below: center design is of a double row of diagonally connected squares which zigzags. This is paralleled by a V-shape above on 2 sides. Lowest design parallels zigzags of the middle motif. It is of diagonally running parallelograms bisected by a diagonal line. Mostly plain twined; some 3-strand twining. Hoop stitched onto top to form rim. A loop of native twine, 3-ply, is attached.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-164123, described as Plain twining technique with overlay designs. White ground. Top band has repeated black motif, a "foot" design variant. Below: center design is of a double row of diagonally connected squares which zigzags. This is paralleled by a V-shape above on 2 sides. Lowest design parallels zigzags of the middle motif. It is of diagonally running parallelograms bisected by a diagonal line. Mostly plain twined; some 3-strand twining. Hoop stitched onto top to form rim. A loop of native twine, 3-ply, is attached.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-164123, described as Plain twining technique with overlay designs. White ground. Top band has repeated black motif, a "foot" design variant. Below: center design is of a double row of diagonally connected squares which zigzags. This is paralleled by a V-shape above on 2 sides. Lowest design parallels zigzags of the middle motif. It is of diagonally running parallelograms bisected by a diagonal line. Mostly plain twined; some 3-strand twining. Hoop stitched onto top to form rim. A loop of native twine, 3-ply, is attached.

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