Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-10106
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010106
Alternate number:
222 (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:
Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Brack root [sic?].
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Sheep Ranch, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Sheep Ranch
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Redbud and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 50.5 centimeters and height 29.7 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "hima"-basket type; "wusussuni"-design motif. Materials: cf. Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 38. Photo: 15-4878. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 45. Remarks: The design is considered an unusual one for an area so far north
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10106, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Brack root [sic?].Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10106, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Brack root [sic?].
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10106, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Brack root [sic?].Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10106, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Brack root [sic?].Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10106, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Brack root [sic?].

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