Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-10082
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010082
Alternate number:
191 (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:
Coiled; flaring sides. Decoration: horizontal doubled zigzag of black "flying geese" beneath rim and, further down, band of crossing diagonal zigzags also composed of black "flying geese." Warp material: Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens). Woof material: sedge (Carex sp.). Design material is brackenfern root (Pteris quilina). Coiled on bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Six Mile, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Six Mile
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Taxon:
Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used in cooking.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 29 centimeters and height 15 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4879. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 43.
Loans:
S2001-2002 #12: Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) (January 14, 2002–May 1, 2002)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10082, described as Coiled; flaring sides. Decoration: horizontal doubled zigzag of black "flying geese" beneath rim and, further down, band of crossing diagonal zigzags also composed of black "flying geese." Warp material: Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens). Woof material: sedge (Carex sp.). Design material is brackenfern root (Pteris quilina). Coiled on bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10082, described as Coiled; flaring sides. Decoration: horizontal doubled zigzag of black "flying geese" beneath rim and, further down, band of crossing diagonal zigzags also composed of black "flying geese." Warp material: Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens). Woof material: sedge (Carex sp.). Design material is brackenfern root (Pteris quilina). Coiled on bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10082, described as Coiled; flaring sides. Decoration: horizontal doubled zigzag of black "flying geese" beneath rim and, further down, band of crossing diagonal zigzags also composed of black "flying geese." Warp material: Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens). Woof material: sedge (Carex sp.). Design material is brackenfern root (Pteris quilina). Coiled on bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10082, described as Coiled; flaring sides. Decoration: horizontal doubled zigzag of black "flying geese" beneath rim and, further down, band of crossing diagonal zigzags also composed of black "flying geese." Warp material: Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens). Woof material: sedge (Carex sp.). Design material is brackenfern root (Pteris quilina). Coiled on bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.

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