Basket

Museum number:
2-57616
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020057616
Alternate number:
1-27186 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.639
Description:
Conical, diagonal twined, leather cover on point of base and cotton cloth carrying strap. Design band of outlined triangles in black. Peeled shoot warp, split catclaw shoot weft, split devil's claw pods for black; caulked with soapberry glue.
Donor:
Mary S. Johnson
Collection place:
North Central Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona
Culture or time period:
Havasupai
Collector:
Agnes Ruth Sengstacken
Collection date:
1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
1929
Context of use:
Basket for carrying loads and collecting foodstuffs.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 58 centimeters and width 68.5 centimeters
Comment:
Second original no. = 132. Mady by: women. One month's work usually. References: AMNH Anthro. Pap., v. 29:3. Spier, Havasupai Ethnography.
Loans:
S1974-1975 #62: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Lawrence E. Dawson (February 6, 1975–February 6, 1975)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-57616, described as Conical, diagonal twined, leather cover on point of base and cotton cloth carrying strap. Design band of outlined triangles in black. Peeled shoot warp, split catclaw shoot weft, split devil's claw pods for black; caulked with soapberry glue.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-57616, described as Conical, diagonal twined, leather cover on point of base and cotton cloth carrying strap. Design band of outlined triangles in black. Peeled shoot warp, split catclaw shoot weft, split devil's claw pods for black; caulked with soapberry glue.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-57616, described as Conical, diagonal twined, leather cover on point of base and cotton cloth carrying strap. Design band of outlined triangles in black. Peeled shoot warp, split catclaw shoot weft, split devil's claw pods for black; caulked with soapberry glue.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-57616, described as Conical, diagonal twined, leather cover on point of base and cotton cloth carrying strap. Design band of outlined triangles in black. Peeled shoot warp, split catclaw shoot weft, split devil's claw pods for black; caulked with soapberry glue.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-57616, described as Conical, diagonal twined, leather cover on point of base and cotton cloth carrying strap. Design band of outlined triangles in black. Peeled shoot warp, split catclaw shoot weft, split devil's claw pods for black; caulked with soapberry glue.

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