Basket

Museum number:
1-71629
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010071629
Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Coiled, wide mouthed with sloping sides.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Context of use:
Used for boiling mush in.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 31 centimeters and height 18 centimeters
Loans:
S1966-1967 #102: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (May 3, 1967–May 3, 1967), S1966-1967 #96: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 20, 1967–April 20, 1967), S1967-1968 #87: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 2, 1968–February 5, 1968), S1975-1976 #39: Department of Nutritional Sciences (UC Berkeley) (December 2, 1975–December 18, 1975), and S1976-1977 #15: UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley (September 26, 1976–September 26, 1976)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-71629, described as Coiled, wide mouthed with sloping sides.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-71629, described as Coiled, wide mouthed with sloping sides.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-71629, described as Coiled, wide mouthed with sloping sides.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71629, described as Coiled, wide mouthed with sloping sides.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71629, described as Coiled, wide mouthed with sloping sides.

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