Basket

Museum number:
1-236835
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
4 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2802
Description:
Coiled. Flat bottomed conical shape, designs in red and black. Encircling band near rim of rattlesnake pattern, mixed vertical and isolated patterns in the wide zone below. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots and redbud shoots.
Donor:
Mrs. George H. Crooks
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
Collected in Ahwahnee
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Mrs. W. M. Sell and Mr. W. M. Sell
Collection date:
1903-1905
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
Unused mush boiling basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 51 centimeters and height 24 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-236835, described as Coiled. Flat bottomed conical shape, designs in red and black. Encircling band near rim of rattlesnake pattern, mixed vertical and isolated patterns in the wide zone below. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots and redbud shoots.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-236835, described as Coiled. Flat bottomed conical shape, designs in red and black. Encircling band near rim of rattlesnake pattern, mixed vertical and isolated patterns in the wide zone below. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots and redbud shoots.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-236835, described as Coiled. Flat bottomed conical shape, designs in red and black. Encircling band near rim of rattlesnake pattern, mixed vertical and isolated patterns in the wide zone below. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots and redbud shoots.

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