Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-10124
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010124
Alternate number:
240 (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; Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). 3-rod coiling, with interlocking stitches; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Large and deep. Decoration: triangular "arrowhead" and thin horizontal banding designs, in black and brown.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Avery, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Avery
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Maker or artist:
Texas
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Brake fern, Redbud, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis, Pteris quilina, and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used in cooking.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 45 centimeters and height 28 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "kitceya" - arrowhead; "wopulansi" - a design which runs entirely around i.e. a band of design; "wima" - rib (horizontal banding design); "hima" - generic term for basket. Materials: cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 41. Photo: 15-4876; 15-4814. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 44.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10124, described as Basket; Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). 3-rod coiling, with interlocking stitches; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Large and deep. Decoration: triangular "arrowhead" and thin horizontal banding designs, in black and brown.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10124, described as Basket; Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). 3-rod coiling, with interlocking stitches; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Large and deep. Decoration: triangular "arrowhead" and thin horizontal banding designs, in black and brown.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10124, described as Basket; Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). 3-rod coiling, with interlocking stitches; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Large and deep. Decoration: triangular "arrowhead" and thin horizontal banding designs, in black and brown.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10124, described as Basket; Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). 3-rod coiling, with interlocking stitches; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Large and deep. Decoration: triangular "arrowhead" and thin horizontal banding designs, in black and brown.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10124, described as Basket; Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). 3-rod coiling, with interlocking stitches; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Large and deep. Decoration: triangular "arrowhead" and thin horizontal banding designs, in black and brown.

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