Basket

Museum number:
1-233728
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3011
Description:
Coiled basin shaped. Single rod foundation of willow shoots, with wefts of sedge root (light) and split redbud shoots (dark). Warped and broken at rim. This type of basket shape received from Patwin.
Donor:
Mrs. John Crosby Brown
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Mother of Mrs. John Crosby Brown
Collection date:
1914
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1973
Context of use:
For sale as tourist novelty.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 45 centimeters and height 7.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-233728, described as Coiled basin shaped. Single rod foundation of willow shoots, with wefts of sedge root (light) and split redbud shoots (dark). Warped and broken at rim. This type of basket shape received from Patwin.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-233728, described as Coiled basin shaped. Single rod foundation of willow shoots, with wefts of sedge root (light) and split redbud shoots (dark). Warped and broken at rim. This type of basket shape received from Patwin.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-233728, described as Coiled basin shaped. Single rod foundation of willow shoots, with wefts of sedge root (light) and split redbud shoots (dark). Warped and broken at rim. This type of basket shape received from Patwin.

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