Basket

Museum number:
1-10214
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010214
Alternate number:
334 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
Basket; coiled. Warp is grass, weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Red pattern is Redbud. Apparently two baskets, elliptical and recurved, joined by a flat basketry foundation. Both the foundation and the baskets are coiled. Decoration: smaller basket has open red diamond figures in a design termed "rare" by Samuel A. Barrett; larger basket has red variant on zigzag pattern. Designs are in redbud.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Coulterville, Mariposa County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mariposa; Coulterville
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Brake fern, Grass (plant material), and Redbud
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Pteris quilina
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
Smaller basket:— 10 centimeters, Smaller basket:— length 50 centimeters, Smaller basket:— height 10.7 centimeters, and Smaller basket:— diameter 12.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-10214, described as Basket; coiled. Warp is grass, weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Red pattern is Redbud. Apparently two baskets, elliptical and recurved, joined by a flat basketry foundation. Both the foundation and the baskets are coiled. Decoration: smaller basket has open red diamond figures in a design termed "rare" by Samuel A. Barrett; larger basket has red variant on zigzag pattern. Designs are in redbud.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-10214, described as Basket; coiled. Warp is grass, weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Red pattern is Redbud. Apparently two baskets, elliptical and recurved, joined by a flat basketry foundation. Both the foundation and the baskets are coiled. Decoration: smaller basket has open red diamond figures in a design termed "rare" by Samuel A. Barrett; larger basket has red variant on zigzag pattern. Designs are in redbud.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-10214, described as Basket; coiled. Warp is grass, weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Red pattern is Redbud. Apparently two baskets, elliptical and recurved, joined by a flat basketry foundation. Both the foundation and the baskets are coiled. Decoration: smaller basket has open red diamond figures in a design termed "rare" by Samuel A. Barrett; larger basket has red variant on zigzag pattern. Designs are in redbud.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-10214, described as Basket; coiled. Warp is grass, weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Red pattern is Redbud. Apparently two baskets, elliptical and recurved, joined by a flat basketry foundation. Both the foundation and the baskets are coiled. Decoration: smaller basket has open red diamond figures in a design termed "rare" by Samuel A. Barrett; larger basket has red variant on zigzag pattern. Designs are in redbud.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-10214, described as Basket; coiled. Warp is grass, weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Red pattern is Redbud. Apparently two baskets, elliptical and recurved, joined by a flat basketry foundation. Both the foundation and the baskets are coiled. Decoration: smaller basket has open red diamond figures in a design termed "rare" by Samuel A. Barrett; larger basket has red variant on zigzag pattern. Designs are in redbud.

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