Basket

Museum number:
1-70238
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Coiled, bottleneck. Tag: "Mission Type". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled bottleneck treasure basket shaped with a shoulder and neck. The foundation is deergrass bundle. The wefts are a peeled shoot such as willow or sumac, orange juncus, a black material that doesn't appear to be juncus, as well as a mottled dark brown material at the rim. The designs are three stepped designs starting at the base and ending at the shoulder. There are three to four undecorated coils at the rim. The basket has a rightward work direction and an exterior workface, with primarily clipped weft fag ends with some bound under fag ends. The basket has a plain wrapped brown rim with a tapered coil terminating in a herringbone stitch in the last 1/2 inch. Is most likeley from the eastern/ desert California.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Southeastern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
California Desert tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Treasure baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 7 inches and height 5 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-70238, described as Coiled, bottleneck. Tag: "Mission Type". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled bottleneck treasure basket shaped with a shoulder and neck. The foundation is deergrass bundle. The wefts are a peeled shoot such as willow or sumac, orange juncus, a black material that doesn't appear to be juncus, as well as a mottled dark brown material at the rim. The designs are three stepped designs starting at the base and ending at the shoulder. There are three to four undecorated coils at the rim. The basket has a rightward work direction and an exterior workface, with primarily clipped weft fag ends with some bound under fag ends. The basket has a plain wrapped brown rim with a tapered coil terminating in a herringbone stitch in the last 1/2 inch. Is most likeley from the eastern/ desert California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-70238, described as Coiled, bottleneck. Tag: "Mission Type". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled bottleneck treasure basket shaped with a shoulder and neck. The foundation is deergrass bundle. The wefts are a peeled shoot such as willow or sumac, orange juncus, a black material that doesn't appear to be juncus, as well as a mottled dark brown material at the rim. The designs are three stepped designs starting at the base and ending at the shoulder. There are three to four undecorated coils at the rim. The basket has a rightward work direction and an exterior workface, with primarily clipped weft fag ends with some bound under fag ends. The basket has a plain wrapped brown rim with a tapered coil terminating in a herringbone stitch in the last 1/2 inch. Is most likeley from the eastern/ desert California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-70238, described as Coiled, bottleneck. Tag: "Mission Type". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled bottleneck treasure basket shaped with a shoulder and neck. The foundation is deergrass bundle. The wefts are a peeled shoot such as willow or sumac, orange juncus, a black material that doesn't appear to be juncus, as well as a mottled dark brown material at the rim. The designs are three stepped designs starting at the base and ending at the shoulder. There are three to four undecorated coils at the rim. The basket has a rightward work direction and an exterior workface, with primarily clipped weft fag ends with some bound under fag ends. The basket has a plain wrapped brown rim with a tapered coil terminating in a herringbone stitch in the last 1/2 inch. Is most likeley from the eastern/ desert California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-70238, described as Coiled, bottleneck. Tag: "Mission Type". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled bottleneck treasure basket shaped with a shoulder and neck. The foundation is deergrass bundle. The wefts are a peeled shoot such as willow or sumac, orange juncus, a black material that doesn't appear to be juncus, as well as a mottled dark brown material at the rim. The designs are three stepped designs starting at the base and ending at the shoulder. There are three to four undecorated coils at the rim. The basket has a rightward work direction and an exterior workface, with primarily clipped weft fag ends with some bound under fag ends. The basket has a plain wrapped brown rim with a tapered coil terminating in a herringbone stitch in the last 1/2 inch. Is most likeley from the eastern/ desert California.

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