Basket

Museum number:
2-68483
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020068483
Alternate number:
65 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4195
Description:
Round with flat base, flaring sides rising to inward-curving shoulder, 2 bands of dark brown in upper area, badly broken around opening. Made of willow weft and warp, dyed bracken fern root, diagonal and plain twined.
Donor:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection place:
Great Basin, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Great Basin
Culture or time period:
Paiute
Collector:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
December 19, 1986
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 17.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-68483, described as Round with flat base, flaring sides rising to inward-curving shoulder, 2 bands of dark brown in upper area, badly broken around opening. Made of willow weft and warp, dyed bracken fern root, diagonal and plain twined.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-68483, described as Round with flat base, flaring sides rising to inward-curving shoulder, 2 bands of dark brown in upper area, badly broken around opening. Made of willow weft and warp, dyed bracken fern root, diagonal and plain twined.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-68483, described as Round with flat base, flaring sides rising to inward-curving shoulder, 2 bands of dark brown in upper area, badly broken around opening. Made of willow weft and warp, dyed bracken fern root, diagonal and plain twined.

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