Basket

Museum number:
1-236786
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3205
Description:
Globular twined mush-boiling basket (unused) in plain twining. Several encircling simple bands. Alternating triangles 3.5 cm below rim. "Dau" mark below rim in diagonal twining. Minor rim damage in one area. Made with diagonal and plain twining; weft of pine root, sedge root and brackenfern root; peeled shoot warp.
Donor:
Mrs. James Samper
Collection place:
Point Arena, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Point Arena
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Mrs. Orville R. Baldwin and Orville R. Baldwin
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Context of use:
Unused mush-boiler.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 32.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-236786, described as Globular twined mush-boiling basket (unused) in plain twining. Several encircling simple bands. Alternating triangles 3.5 cm below rim. "Dau" mark below rim in diagonal twining. Minor rim damage in one area. Made with diagonal and plain twining; weft of pine root, sedge root and brackenfern root; peeled shoot warp.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-236786, described as Globular twined mush-boiling basket (unused) in plain twining. Several encircling simple bands. Alternating triangles 3.5 cm below rim. "Dau" mark below rim in diagonal twining. Minor rim damage in one area. Made with diagonal and plain twining; weft of pine root, sedge root and brackenfern root; peeled shoot warp.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-236786, described as Globular twined mush-boiling basket (unused) in plain twining. Several encircling simple bands. Alternating triangles 3.5 cm below rim. "Dau" mark below rim in diagonal twining. Minor rim damage in one area. Made with diagonal and plain twining; weft of pine root, sedge root and brackenfern root; peeled shoot warp.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-236786, described as Globular twined mush-boiling basket (unused) in plain twining. Several encircling simple bands. Alternating triangles 3.5 cm below rim. "Dau" mark below rim in diagonal twining. Minor rim damage in one area. Made with diagonal and plain twining; weft of pine root, sedge root and brackenfern root; peeled shoot warp.

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