Basket
- Museum number:
- 1-255568
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010255568
- Accession number:
- Acc.3603
- Description:
- Coiled. Deep, sloped-sided, with circular cross section. Natural color with 2 dark-colored horizontal zigzag bands and a dark-colored horizontal geometric band. Grass bundle foundation. Grass types: Muhlengergia rigens, Cladium mariscus; decoration, Pteridium aquilinum.
- Donor:
- Horace Alexander Knox
- Collection place:
- South Central California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California
- Culture or time period:
- Western Mono
- Collector:
- Holcomb Alexander Knox, Horace Alexander Knox, and Irene Catherine Knox
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Taxon:
- Cladium, Cladium mariscus, Muhlenbergia rigens, and Pteridium
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
- Function:
- 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
- Context of use:
- Probably made as an item for sale, although the basket is of the "mush-boiling" type.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- 26.4 centimeters and height 14.5 centimeters
- Comment:
- Identification of type, use, and materials by Lawrence E. Dawson.
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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