Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-4115
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Alternate number:
237 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.101
Description:
Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Brown pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Three double diagonal shapes.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Tübatulabal
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Brake fern and Sedge
Taxon:
Carex, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11.4 centimeters and diameter 28.2 centimeters
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 74.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-4115, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Brown pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Three double diagonal shapes.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-4115, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Brown pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Three double diagonal shapes.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-4115, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Brown pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Three double diagonal shapes.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-4115, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Brown pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Three double diagonal shapes.

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