Basket

Museum number:
2-66952
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3879
Description:
With carrying strap. Twined, (probably) sumac shoots with resin coating (pink brown); globular with elongated neck, 2 crooked wood handles with attached leather thong. Pitched with pinon resin (brittle and disintegrating).*
Donor:
JoAnn Morgan
Collection place:
Central Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona
Culture or time period:
Western Apache
Collector:
Morgan Family
Collection date:
April 1984
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Context of use:
Used for carrying water, possibly on pinon gathering trips.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 26.5 centimeters and 69 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: "*Thong treated w/DDT; resin stabilized in Museum by Geoff Brown, Conservator
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-66952, described as With carrying strap. Twined, (probably) sumac shoots with resin coating (pink brown); globular with elongated neck, 2 crooked wood handles with attached leather thong. Pitched with pinon resin (brittle and disintegrating).*Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-66952, described as With carrying strap. Twined, (probably) sumac shoots with resin coating (pink brown); globular with elongated neck, 2 crooked wood handles with attached leather thong. Pitched with pinon resin (brittle and disintegrating).*
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-66952, described as With carrying strap. Twined, (probably) sumac shoots with resin coating (pink brown); globular with elongated neck, 2 crooked wood handles with attached leather thong. Pitched with pinon resin (brittle and disintegrating).*

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