Basketry weft

Museum number:
1-168990
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
11 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1203
Description:
Bear grass Xerophyllum tenax used as one kind of weft element in finer basketry.
Donor:
Marie Potts and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Susanville, Lassen County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Plumas; Lake Almanor; Susanville
Culture or time period:
Maidu
Maker or artist:
Marie Potts
Collector:
Marie Potts
Collection date:
May 1957
Taxon:
Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre)
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Production date:
May 1957
Accession date:
1957
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Called tcitakam.
Loans:
S1979-1980 #55: California Academy of Sciences (April 4, 1980–December 19, 1981)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basketry weft, accession number 1-168990, described as Bear grass Xerophyllum tenax used as one kind of weft element in finer basketry.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry weft, accession number 1-168990, described as Bear grass Xerophyllum tenax used as one kind of weft element in finer basketry.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry weft, accession number 1-168990, described as Bear grass Xerophyllum tenax used as one kind of weft element in finer basketry.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry weft, accession number 1-168990, described as Bear grass Xerophyllum tenax used as one kind of weft element in finer basketry.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry weft, accession number 1-168990, described as Bear grass Xerophyllum tenax used as one kind of weft element in finer basketry.

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