Basket

Museum number:
1-230678
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
65 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2563
Description:
2 rattlesnake bands on body, one on shoulder (red diamond, outlined in straw-colored ground on encircling black band); coiled, necked, jar-shaped. Minute traces of feathers; 2 areas of red diamonds and black triangles on neck. Made of redbud and bracken fern.
Donor:
Mr. W. W. Lyman, Sarah A. Lyman, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Tule River Reservation, Tulare County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tulare; Tule River Reservation
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Mr. W. W. Lyman
Collection date:
ca. 1910
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1969
Context of use:
Money basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 15 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-230678, described as 2 rattlesnake bands on body, one on shoulder (red diamond, outlined in straw-colored ground on encircling black band); coiled, necked, jar-shaped. Minute traces of feathers; 2 areas of red diamonds and black triangles on neck. Made of redbud and bracken fern.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-230678, described as 2 rattlesnake bands on body, one on shoulder (red diamond, outlined in straw-colored ground on encircling black band); coiled, necked, jar-shaped. Minute traces of feathers; 2 areas of red diamonds and black triangles on neck. Made of redbud and bracken fern.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-230678, described as 2 rattlesnake bands on body, one on shoulder (red diamond, outlined in straw-colored ground on encircling black band); coiled, necked, jar-shaped. Minute traces of feathers; 2 areas of red diamonds and black triangles on neck. Made of redbud and bracken fern.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-230678, described as 2 rattlesnake bands on body, one on shoulder (red diamond, outlined in straw-colored ground on encircling black band); coiled, necked, jar-shaped. Minute traces of feathers; 2 areas of red diamonds and black triangles on neck. Made of redbud and bracken fern.

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