Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-10260
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
383 (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; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flattish, coiled on grass bundle foundation with interlocking stitches. Decoration: black band in horizontal zigzag pattern.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Wawona, Mariposa County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mariposa; Wawona
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Maker or artist:
Mother of Susie 2
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Brake fern and Sedge
Taxon:
Carex, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving, Cooking baskets, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 23.5 centimeters and height 8.2 centimeters
Comment:
Materials, techniques: cf. Supplentary Catalogue 1, p. 40. Native name and meaning: The Miwok word for this kind of basket is "pulaka". "Tela hu" is the generic term for the design, and "luna" is the word for the black root used in this basket. "Tuhuhi telahu" is the term for black design, while "loyauni telahu" appears to be the word used to refer to the particular black design appearing on this basket. Photo: 15-4968. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. vol. 2, pl. 50.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10260, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flattish, coiled on grass bundle foundation with interlocking stitches. Decoration: black band in horizontal zigzag pattern.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10260, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flattish, coiled on grass bundle foundation with interlocking stitches. Decoration: black band in horizontal zigzag pattern.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10260, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flattish, coiled on grass bundle foundation with interlocking stitches. Decoration: black band in horizontal zigzag pattern.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10260, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flattish, coiled on grass bundle foundation with interlocking stitches. Decoration: black band in horizontal zigzag pattern.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10260, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flattish, coiled on grass bundle foundation with interlocking stitches. Decoration: black band in horizontal zigzag pattern.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10260, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flattish, coiled on grass bundle foundation with interlocking stitches. Decoration: black band in horizontal zigzag pattern.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10260, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flattish, coiled on grass bundle foundation with interlocking stitches. Decoration: black band in horizontal zigzag pattern.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10260, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flattish, coiled on grass bundle foundation with interlocking stitches. Decoration: black band in horizontal zigzag pattern.

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