Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-14478
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
137 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.344
Description:
Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Rhus. Pattern is yellow Juncus. Fide James C. Moreno 2/15/83: Flat basket, edge rather sharply upturned, faint narrow ornament in brown. The so called slight arrow design is there for the purpose of raising up the sides of the basket so the husks on dry acorns would rub off easier.
Donor:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection place:
Inaja and Cosmit Reservation, San Diego County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Diego; Inaja Reservation
Culture or time period:
Diegueño and Kumeyaay
Collector:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection date:
June-July 1908
Taxon:
Juncus, Rhus, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
Plate style, small acorn (winnowing or husking basket), rub husk off with hand in circular motion in basket, and throw up acorn in wind, so husk would fly off and acorns would fall back in basket. The so called slight arrow design is there for the purpose
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 8.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-14478, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Rhus. Pattern is yellow Juncus. Fide James C. Moreno 2/15/83: Flat basket, edge rather sharply upturned, faint narrow ornament in brown. The so called slight arrow design is there for the purpose of raising up the sides of the basket so the husks on dry acorns would rub off easier.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-14478, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Rhus. Pattern is yellow Juncus. Fide James C. Moreno 2/15/83: Flat basket, edge rather sharply upturned, faint narrow ornament in brown. The so called slight arrow design is there for the purpose of raising up the sides of the basket so the husks on dry acorns would rub off easier.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-14478, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Rhus. Pattern is yellow Juncus. Fide James C. Moreno 2/15/83: Flat basket, edge rather sharply upturned, faint narrow ornament in brown. The so called slight arrow design is there for the purpose of raising up the sides of the basket so the husks on dry acorns would rub off easier.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-14478, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Rhus. Pattern is yellow Juncus. Fide James C. Moreno 2/15/83: Flat basket, edge rather sharply upturned, faint narrow ornament in brown. The so called slight arrow design is there for the purpose of raising up the sides of the basket so the husks on dry acorns would rub off easier.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-14478, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Rhus. Pattern is yellow Juncus. Fide James C. Moreno 2/15/83: Flat basket, edge rather sharply upturned, faint narrow ornament in brown. The so called slight arrow design is there for the purpose of raising up the sides of the basket so the husks on dry acorns would rub off easier.

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