Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-70176
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
9 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Coiled, plate shape. Snake design. Tag "No 9 AE.-00". Second tag "9. Mission type Snake". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring coiled basket bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation and orange, tan and black dyed juncus design wefts. The background wefts are sumac. The designs include a coiled snake with other abstract designs on the sides of the basket. The workface is on the interior. The wefts fag ends are bound under and the work direction is to the right. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Southwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Southwest California tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 10 inches and height 3 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70176, described as Coiled, plate shape. Snake design. Tag "No 9 AE.-00". Second tag "9. Mission type Snake". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring coiled basket bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation and orange, tan and black dyed juncus design wefts. The background wefts are sumac. The designs include a coiled snake with other abstract designs on the sides of the basket. The workface is on the interior. The wefts fag ends are bound under and the work direction is to the right. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending.Hearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70176, described as Coiled, plate shape. Snake design. Tag "No 9 AE.-00". Second tag "9. Mission type Snake". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring coiled basket bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation and orange, tan and black dyed juncus design wefts. The background wefts are sumac. The designs include a coiled snake with other abstract designs on the sides of the basket. The workface is on the interior. The wefts fag ends are bound under and the work direction is to the right. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending.Hearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70176, described as Coiled, plate shape. Snake design. Tag "No 9 AE.-00". Second tag "9. Mission type Snake". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring coiled basket bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation and orange, tan and black dyed juncus design wefts. The background wefts are sumac. The designs include a coiled snake with other abstract designs on the sides of the basket. The workface is on the interior. The wefts fag ends are bound under and the work direction is to the right. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending.Hearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70176, described as Coiled, plate shape. Snake design. Tag "No 9 AE.-00". Second tag "9. Mission type Snake". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring coiled basket bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation and orange, tan and black dyed juncus design wefts. The background wefts are sumac. The designs include a coiled snake with other abstract designs on the sides of the basket. The workface is on the interior. The wefts fag ends are bound under and the work direction is to the right. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending.Hearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70176, described as Coiled, plate shape. Snake design. Tag "No 9 AE.-00". Second tag "9. Mission type Snake". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring coiled basket bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation and orange, tan and black dyed juncus design wefts. The background wefts are sumac. The designs include a coiled snake with other abstract designs on the sides of the basket. The workface is on the interior. The wefts fag ends are bound under and the work direction is to the right. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70176, described as Coiled, plate shape. Snake design. Tag "No 9 AE.-00". Second tag "9. Mission type Snake". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring coiled basket bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation and orange, tan and black dyed juncus design wefts. The background wefts are sumac. The designs include a coiled snake with other abstract designs on the sides of the basket. The workface is on the interior. The wefts fag ends are bound under and the work direction is to the right. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70176, described as Coiled, plate shape. Snake design. Tag "No 9 AE.-00". Second tag "9. Mission type Snake". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring coiled basket bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation and orange, tan and black dyed juncus design wefts. The background wefts are sumac. The designs include a coiled snake with other abstract designs on the sides of the basket. The workface is on the interior. The wefts fag ends are bound under and the work direction is to the right. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending.

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