Basket

Museum number:
1-27193
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010027193
Alternate number:
149 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.639
Description:
Coiled, encircling decoration of grotesque human figures.
Donor:
Mary S. Johnson
Collection place:
San Diego, San Diego County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Diego; San Diego
Culture or time period:
Diegueño and Kumeyaay
Collector:
Agnes Ruth Sengstacken
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1929
Context of use:
Made for the mission as a gift for the men with "long dress" (father) father of the Mission San Diego--Diegueno design"-Fide James C. Moreno, February 15, 1983.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 6 inches and height 5 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-27193, described as Coiled, encircling decoration of grotesque human figures.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-27193, described as Coiled, encircling decoration of grotesque human figures.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-27193, described as Coiled, encircling decoration of grotesque human figures.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-27193, described as Coiled, encircling decoration of grotesque human figures.

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