Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-71086
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Twined, bowl shape with incurving rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Materials are tule cordage warp, tule wefts, and beargrass overlay with black maidenhair fern designs. The basket is primarily plain twined, with two rows of three strand twining near the base. At the rim, the cordage warps are bound down. Designs are three bands of horizontal parallelograms as well as diamonds, crosses, and triangles. Could be Eastern Achumawi, Eastern Atsugewi or Modoc, based on the use of cordage warps and extensive overlay.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northeastern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northeastern California tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 7 inches and height 6 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71086, described as Twined, bowl shape with incurving rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Materials are tule cordage warp, tule wefts, and beargrass overlay with black maidenhair fern designs. The basket is primarily plain twined, with two rows of three strand twining near the base. At the rim, the cordage warps are bound down. Designs are three bands of horizontal parallelograms as well as diamonds, crosses, and triangles. Could be Eastern Achumawi, Eastern Atsugewi or Modoc, based on the use of cordage warps and extensive overlay.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71086, described as Twined, bowl shape with incurving rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Materials are tule cordage warp, tule wefts, and beargrass overlay with black maidenhair fern designs. The basket is primarily plain twined, with two rows of three strand twining near the base. At the rim, the cordage warps are bound down. Designs are three bands of horizontal parallelograms as well as diamonds, crosses, and triangles. Could be Eastern Achumawi, Eastern Atsugewi or Modoc, based on the use of cordage warps and extensive overlay.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71086, described as Twined, bowl shape with incurving rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Materials are tule cordage warp, tule wefts, and beargrass overlay with black maidenhair fern designs. The basket is primarily plain twined, with two rows of three strand twining near the base. At the rim, the cordage warps are bound down. Designs are three bands of horizontal parallelograms as well as diamonds, crosses, and triangles. Could be Eastern Achumawi, Eastern Atsugewi or Modoc, based on the use of cordage warps and extensive overlay.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71086, described as Twined, bowl shape with incurving rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Materials are tule cordage warp, tule wefts, and beargrass overlay with black maidenhair fern designs. The basket is primarily plain twined, with two rows of three strand twining near the base. At the rim, the cordage warps are bound down. Designs are three bands of horizontal parallelograms as well as diamonds, crosses, and triangles. Could be Eastern Achumawi, Eastern Atsugewi or Modoc, based on the use of cordage warps and extensive overlay.

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