Basket

Museum number:
1-255042
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3683
Description:
Conical shape with flat bottom, twill twined with full-twist overlay. Patterned bands of black and light brown, openwork around upper edge. Handle on one side made of fiber coiled over twisted wire, wire exposed and broken at one end of handle.
Donor:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection place:
Great Basin, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Washo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers), Coiled weaving, and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Context of use:
Waste basket, made for sale.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 36 centimeters and height 35 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-255042, described as Conical shape with flat bottom, twill twined with full-twist overlay. Patterned bands of black and light brown, openwork around upper edge. Handle on one side made of fiber coiled over twisted wire, wire exposed and broken at one end of handle.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-255042, described as Conical shape with flat bottom, twill twined with full-twist overlay. Patterned bands of black and light brown, openwork around upper edge. Handle on one side made of fiber coiled over twisted wire, wire exposed and broken at one end of handle.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-255042, described as Conical shape with flat bottom, twill twined with full-twist overlay. Patterned bands of black and light brown, openwork around upper edge. Handle on one side made of fiber coiled over twisted wire, wire exposed and broken at one end of handle.

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