Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-71067
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Twined, bowl shape. Per Ralph Shanks: Atsugewi or other Northeast California tribe. Probably cooking basket, with added weight by cooked in food remains. Basket has straight sides, only slightly flairing. Three strand twining and plain twining at the base, plain twined on sides, and two rows of three strand twining at the rim. Warp sticks are probably hazel. Conifer root weft with beargrass overlay. Black designs are probably maidenhair fern. Designs include V shapes on their sides and checkered pattern below the rim.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northeastern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Atsugewi
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 12 inches and height 8 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-71067, described as Twined, bowl shape. Per Ralph Shanks: Atsugewi or other Northeast California tribe. Probably cooking basket, with added weight by cooked in food remains. Basket has straight sides, only slightly flairing. Three strand twining and plain twining at the base, plain twined on sides, and two rows of three strand twining at the rim. Warp sticks are probably hazel. Conifer root weft with beargrass overlay. Black designs are probably maidenhair fern. Designs include V shapes on their sides and checkered pattern below the rim.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-71067, described as Twined, bowl shape. Per Ralph Shanks: Atsugewi or other Northeast California tribe. Probably cooking basket, with added weight by cooked in food remains. Basket has straight sides, only slightly flairing. Three strand twining and plain twining at the base, plain twined on sides, and two rows of three strand twining at the rim. Warp sticks are probably hazel. Conifer root weft with beargrass overlay. Black designs are probably maidenhair fern. Designs include V shapes on their sides and checkered pattern below the rim.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-71067, described as Twined, bowl shape. Per Ralph Shanks: Atsugewi or other Northeast California tribe. Probably cooking basket, with added weight by cooked in food remains. Basket has straight sides, only slightly flairing. Three strand twining and plain twining at the base, plain twined on sides, and two rows of three strand twining at the rim. Warp sticks are probably hazel. Conifer root weft with beargrass overlay. Black designs are probably maidenhair fern. Designs include V shapes on their sides and checkered pattern below the rim.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-71067, described as Twined, bowl shape. Per Ralph Shanks: Atsugewi or other Northeast California tribe. Probably cooking basket, with added weight by cooked in food remains. Basket has straight sides, only slightly flairing. Three strand twining and plain twining at the base, plain twined on sides, and two rows of three strand twining at the rim. Warp sticks are probably hazel. Conifer root weft with beargrass overlay. Black designs are probably maidenhair fern. Designs include V shapes on their sides and checkered pattern below the rim.

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