Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-61745
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010061745
Alternate number:
119 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.811
Description:
Coiled, flat bottom bowl-shape, decorated with 2 groups of diagonal parallel lines pendant to rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Large broad coiled bowl. The basket was used as a cooking pot. Deergrass bundle foundation. The background wefts are sedge root; the designs are bull-rush root. The basket has little design except for two opposing sets of six diagonal parallel stepped lines starting one coil below the rim. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward warp direction. The basket has Salinan pinched/ nub weft fag ends. On the interior/ backface of the basket the moving ends are concealed under the weft stitches. The moving ends location is visible due to a slight rise in the covering weft stitch. Many weft stitches are split on the interior of the basket. The rim is plain wrapped. Part of the rim coil is missing, including the end.
Donor:
Sarah Levy and Sophia Hazel Levy McDonald
Collection place:
Carmel Mission, Monterey County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Monterey; Carmel Mission
Culture or time period:
Ohlone and Salinan
Collector:
Sarah Levy
Collection date:
1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1942
Context of use:
Mush-boiling basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 16 centimeters and diameter 46 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: Mended with Elmer's glue (PVA emulsion)..left to dry 1966, found on top of unit 27, 1993.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-61745, described as Coiled, flat bottom bowl-shape, decorated with 2 groups of diagonal parallel lines pendant to rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Large broad coiled bowl. The basket was used as a cooking pot. Deergrass bundle foundation. The background wefts are sedge root; the designs are bull-rush root. The basket has little design except for two opposing sets of six diagonal parallel stepped lines starting one coil below the rim. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward warp direction. The basket has Salinan pinched/ nub weft fag ends. On the interior/ backface of the basket the moving ends are concealed under the weft stitches. The moving ends location is visible due to a slight rise in the covering weft stitch. Many weft stitches are split on the interior of the basket. The rim is plain wrapped. Part of the rim coil is missing, including the end.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-61745, described as Coiled, flat bottom bowl-shape, decorated with 2 groups of diagonal parallel lines pendant to rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Large broad coiled bowl. The basket was used as a cooking pot. Deergrass bundle foundation. The background wefts are sedge root; the designs are bull-rush root. The basket has little design except for two opposing sets of six diagonal parallel stepped lines starting one coil below the rim. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward warp direction. The basket has Salinan pinched/ nub weft fag ends. On the interior/ backface of the basket the moving ends are concealed under the weft stitches. The moving ends location is visible due to a slight rise in the covering weft stitch. Many weft stitches are split on the interior of the basket. The rim is plain wrapped. Part of the rim coil is missing, including the end.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-61745, described as Coiled, flat bottom bowl-shape, decorated with 2 groups of diagonal parallel lines pendant to rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Large broad coiled bowl. The basket was used as a cooking pot. Deergrass bundle foundation. The background wefts are sedge root; the designs are bull-rush root. The basket has little design except for two opposing sets of six diagonal parallel stepped lines starting one coil below the rim. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward warp direction. The basket has Salinan pinched/ nub weft fag ends. On the interior/ backface of the basket the moving ends are concealed under the weft stitches. The moving ends location is visible due to a slight rise in the covering weft stitch. Many weft stitches are split on the interior of the basket. The rim is plain wrapped. Part of the rim coil is missing, including the end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-61745, described as Coiled, flat bottom bowl-shape, decorated with 2 groups of diagonal parallel lines pendant to rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Large broad coiled bowl. The basket was used as a cooking pot. Deergrass bundle foundation. The background wefts are sedge root; the designs are bull-rush root. The basket has little design except for two opposing sets of six diagonal parallel stepped lines starting one coil below the rim. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward warp direction. The basket has Salinan pinched/ nub weft fag ends. On the interior/ backface of the basket the moving ends are concealed under the weft stitches. The moving ends location is visible due to a slight rise in the covering weft stitch. Many weft stitches are split on the interior of the basket. The rim is plain wrapped. Part of the rim coil is missing, including the end.

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