Basket

Museum number:
2-19057
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020019057
Accession number:
Acc.854
Description:
Flexible twined basket with brown design including dogs; plain twined basket with 4 vertical bands with brown rectangular designs; parade of dogs around rim; rush cordage warp, rush material weft; overlay of Xerophyllum tenax and cedar bark. Plaited edge (damaged).
Donor:
Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
Collection place:
Puget Sound, Western Washington
Verbatim coll. place:
; Puget Sound
Culture or time period:
Twana
Maker or artist:
Wife of Vaquero
Collector:
George Davidson
Collection date:
August 1850
Taxon:
Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers), Plaited weaving, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Production date:
August 1850
Accession date:
1945
Context of use:
Houshold basket.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 20.2 centimeters
Comment:
old note says: "This basket was made for me in Aug. 1850 by the Indian wife of the Indian Vaquero who lived on Don Anastacio Cabillo's Ranch at the Coxo, 2 mi. E. of Pt. Conception" George Davidson." That location would refer to Chumash territory so the label probably belongs to a Chumash basket." and NOT this basket.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-19057, described as Flexible twined basket with brown design including dogs; plain twined basket with 4 vertical bands with brown rectangular designs; parade of dogs around rim; rush cordage warp, rush material weft; overlay of Xerophyllum tenax and cedar bark. Plaited edge (damaged).Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-19057, described as Flexible twined basket with brown design including dogs; plain twined basket with 4 vertical bands with brown rectangular designs; parade of dogs around rim; rush cordage warp, rush material weft; overlay of Xerophyllum tenax and cedar bark. Plaited edge (damaged).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-19057, described as Flexible twined basket with brown design including dogs; plain twined basket with 4 vertical bands with brown rectangular designs; parade of dogs around rim; rush cordage warp, rush material weft; overlay of Xerophyllum tenax and cedar bark. Plaited edge (damaged).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-19057, described as Flexible twined basket with brown design including dogs; plain twined basket with 4 vertical bands with brown rectangular designs; parade of dogs around rim; rush cordage warp, rush material weft; overlay of Xerophyllum tenax and cedar bark. Plaited edge (damaged).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-19057, described as Flexible twined basket with brown design including dogs; plain twined basket with 4 vertical bands with brown rectangular designs; parade of dogs around rim; rush cordage warp, rush material weft; overlay of Xerophyllum tenax and cedar bark. Plaited edge (damaged).

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