Basket

Museum number:
1-194988
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Alternate number:
2-18470 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Tray. Shallow, oval. Coiled; black designs of concentric squares topped with sharp points; designs in blackened Juncus rush material on ground of sumac shoot strands.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Imperial County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Cahuilla
Collector:
Mother of Harold Levy
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 24.5 centimeters, length 29.4 centimeters, and height 5.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-194988, described as Tray. Shallow, oval. Coiled; black designs of concentric squares topped with sharp points; designs in blackened Juncus rush material on ground of sumac shoot strands.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-194988, described as Tray. Shallow, oval. Coiled; black designs of concentric squares topped with sharp points; designs in blackened Juncus rush material on ground of sumac shoot strands.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-194988, described as Tray. Shallow, oval. Coiled; black designs of concentric squares topped with sharp points; designs in blackened Juncus rush material on ground of sumac shoot strands.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-194988, described as Tray. Shallow, oval. Coiled; black designs of concentric squares topped with sharp points; designs in blackened Juncus rush material on ground of sumac shoot strands.

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