Treasure basket

Museum number:
1-236833
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
12 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2802
Description:
Coiled, squat globular shape. Design: 5 units of red and black rightward ascending step patterns. Materials: grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots and split redbud shoot.
Donor:
Mrs. George H. Crooks
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
Collected in Ahwahnee
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Maker or artist:
Louisa Hilliard
Collector:
Mrs. W. M. Sell and Mr. W. M. Sell
Collection date:
1903-1905
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Treasure baskets
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
Trinket basket for small objects. Also served as gift basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 21 centimeters and height 13 centimeters
Comment:
Made by Louisa, Sister of Mrs. Jim Rohan
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-236833, described as Coiled, squat globular shape. Design: 5 units of red and black rightward ascending step patterns. Materials: grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots and split redbud shoot.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-236833, described as Coiled, squat globular shape. Design: 5 units of red and black rightward ascending step patterns. Materials: grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots and split redbud shoot.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-236833, described as Coiled, squat globular shape. Design: 5 units of red and black rightward ascending step patterns. Materials: grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots and split redbud shoot.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-236833, described as Coiled, squat globular shape. Design: 5 units of red and black rightward ascending step patterns. Materials: grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots and split redbud shoot.

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