Basket

Museum number:
1-71073
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Basketry pitcher, twined. Per Ralph Shanks: Vase with handle. Conifer root weft beargrass overlay for background. Designs are maidenhair fern including anthropomorphic designs. Both bottom and top rim is wrapped, typical of Atsugewi. Plain twined except for a few bands of three strand twining.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northeastern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Atsugewi
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 10 inches and diameter 4 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-71073, described as Basketry pitcher, twined. Per Ralph Shanks: Vase with handle. Conifer root weft beargrass overlay for background. Designs are maidenhair fern including anthropomorphic designs. Both bottom and top rim is wrapped, typical of Atsugewi. Plain twined except for a few bands of three strand twining.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-71073, described as Basketry pitcher, twined. Per Ralph Shanks: Vase with handle. Conifer root weft beargrass overlay for background. Designs are maidenhair fern including anthropomorphic designs. Both bottom and top rim is wrapped, typical of Atsugewi. Plain twined except for a few bands of three strand twining.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71073, described as Basketry pitcher, twined. Per Ralph Shanks: Vase with handle. Conifer root weft beargrass overlay for background. Designs are maidenhair fern including anthropomorphic designs. Both bottom and top rim is wrapped, typical of Atsugewi. Plain twined except for a few bands of three strand twining.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71073, described as Basketry pitcher, twined. Per Ralph Shanks: Vase with handle. Conifer root weft beargrass overlay for background. Designs are maidenhair fern including anthropomorphic designs. Both bottom and top rim is wrapped, typical of Atsugewi. Plain twined except for a few bands of three strand twining.

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