Basket

Museum number:
1-216865
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1732
Description:
Plain twining with 2-faced overlay. Right angle stepped designs. Poor condition; used. White ground with sawtooth bottom edge. Red and black stripes within designs. 3-strand twining on bottom: 5 cm radius from start; 2 rows at 8 cm from start.
Donor:
Brainerd Plehn
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wintu
Collector:
Mother of Brainerd Plehn
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1963
Context of use:
Used to boil mush.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 19 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-216865, described as Plain twining with 2-faced overlay. Right angle stepped designs. Poor condition; used. White ground with sawtooth bottom edge. Red and black stripes within designs. 3-strand twining on bottom: 5 cm radius from start; 2 rows at 8 cm from start.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-216865, described as Plain twining with 2-faced overlay. Right angle stepped designs. Poor condition; used. White ground with sawtooth bottom edge. Red and black stripes within designs. 3-strand twining on bottom: 5 cm radius from start; 2 rows at 8 cm from start.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-216865, described as Plain twining with 2-faced overlay. Right angle stepped designs. Poor condition; used. White ground with sawtooth bottom edge. Red and black stripes within designs. 3-strand twining on bottom: 5 cm radius from start; 2 rows at 8 cm from start.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-216865, described as Plain twining with 2-faced overlay. Right angle stepped designs. Poor condition; used. White ground with sawtooth bottom edge. Red and black stripes within designs. 3-strand twining on bottom: 5 cm radius from start; 2 rows at 8 cm from start.

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