Cooking basket
- Museum number:
- 1-10144
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010010144
- Alternate number:
- 263 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
- Description:
- Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: disconnected horizontal red lines. Basket was described as being "very old" when it was collected in 1906.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection place:
- Murphys, Calaveras County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Calaveras; Murphys
- Culture or time period:
- Eastern Miwok
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection date:
- 1906
- Materials:
- Redbud and Willow (wood)
- Taxon:
- Cercis occidentalis and Salix
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1906
- Context of use:
- Used as a cooking basket.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 34 centimeters and height 17 centimeters
- Comment:
- Described as being "very old" when it was collected in 1906. Native name and meaning: "hima" - generic term for kind of basket. Materials: cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 39. Context of use: Samuel A. Barrett noted that "these same "hima" were not used to cook in very much". Conservation: Basket has been mended at both the rim and the bottom.
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