Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-71053
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Twined, bowl shape with incurving rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Probably a cooking basket, used. Three strand twining at the base, and plain twined on the sides. Warp sticks are hazel. Conifer root weft with beargrass overlay. Black designs are probably maidenhair fern. Some rim and base damage. Staining on outside and inside. Designs include four diamonds surrounded by triangles. At the rim is a narrow stripe, two weft rows wide. Ther is a zigzag design around the base.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northeastern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northeastern California tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 9 inches and height 8 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-71053, described as Twined, bowl shape with incurving rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Probably a cooking basket, used. Three strand twining at the base, and plain twined on the sides. Warp sticks are hazel. Conifer root weft with beargrass overlay. Black designs are probably maidenhair fern. Some rim and base damage. Staining on outside and inside. Designs include four diamonds surrounded by triangles. At the rim is a narrow stripe, two weft rows wide. Ther is a zigzag design around the base.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-71053, described as Twined, bowl shape with incurving rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Probably a cooking basket, used. Three strand twining at the base, and plain twined on the sides. Warp sticks are hazel. Conifer root weft with beargrass overlay. Black designs are probably maidenhair fern. Some rim and base damage. Staining on outside and inside. Designs include four diamonds surrounded by triangles. At the rim is a narrow stripe, two weft rows wide. Ther is a zigzag design around the base.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-71053, described as Twined, bowl shape with incurving rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Probably a cooking basket, used. Three strand twining at the base, and plain twined on the sides. Warp sticks are hazel. Conifer root weft with beargrass overlay. Black designs are probably maidenhair fern. Some rim and base damage. Staining on outside and inside. Designs include four diamonds surrounded by triangles. At the rim is a narrow stripe, two weft rows wide. Ther is a zigzag design around the base.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-71053, described as Twined, bowl shape with incurving rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Probably a cooking basket, used. Three strand twining at the base, and plain twined on the sides. Warp sticks are hazel. Conifer root weft with beargrass overlay. Black designs are probably maidenhair fern. Some rim and base damage. Staining on outside and inside. Designs include four diamonds surrounded by triangles. At the rim is a narrow stripe, two weft rows wide. Ther is a zigzag design around the base.

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