Basket

Museum number:
1-230638
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
24 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2563
Description:
Plain-twined, basin shape, very flexible because of tule or cattail leaf cordage warp. Most of surface covered with diagonal trending designs in black on ground of beargrass ovelay. Warp and weft of tule or cattail leaf, overlay of Cerophyllum tenax and a black material.
Donor:
Mr. W. W. Lyman, Sarah A. Lyman, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Likely Rancheria, Modoc County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Modoc; Likely Rancheria
Culture or time period:
Achumawi
Collector:
Mr. W. W. Lyman
Collection date:
1902
Taxon:
Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1969
Context of use:
General receptacle for food preparation. Made by women.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 36 centimeters and height 8 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-230638, described as Plain-twined, basin shape, very flexible because of tule or cattail leaf cordage warp. Most of surface covered with diagonal trending designs in black on ground of beargrass ovelay. Warp and weft of tule or cattail leaf, overlay of Cerophyllum tenax and a black material.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-230638, described as Plain-twined, basin shape, very flexible because of tule or cattail leaf cordage warp. Most of surface covered with diagonal trending designs in black on ground of beargrass ovelay. Warp and weft of tule or cattail leaf, overlay of Cerophyllum tenax and a black material.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-230638, described as Plain-twined, basin shape, very flexible because of tule or cattail leaf cordage warp. Most of surface covered with diagonal trending designs in black on ground of beargrass ovelay. Warp and weft of tule or cattail leaf, overlay of Cerophyllum tenax and a black material.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-230638, described as Plain-twined, basin shape, very flexible because of tule or cattail leaf cordage warp. Most of surface covered with diagonal trending designs in black on ground of beargrass ovelay. Warp and weft of tule or cattail leaf, overlay of Cerophyllum tenax and a black material.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-230638, described as Plain-twined, basin shape, very flexible because of tule or cattail leaf cordage warp. Most of surface covered with diagonal trending designs in black on ground of beargrass ovelay. Warp and weft of tule or cattail leaf, overlay of Cerophyllum tenax and a black material.

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