Basket

Museum number:
1-2421
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Alternate number:
55 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.31 and Acc.87
Description:
Pan basket with loop handle; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). Pattern is bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax). Overall color is white, Red dye is inner bark of Sugar pine root. Handle is pine root on Hezel fastened with string.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Hupa
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1901
Materials:
Bear grass, Hazel shoots, and Sugar pine root
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica, Pinus lambertiana, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903 and December 27, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 19.6 centimeters and height 8.2 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 9
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-2421, described as Pan basket with loop handle; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). Pattern is bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax). Overall color is white, Red dye is inner bark of Sugar pine root. Handle is pine root on Hezel fastened with string.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-2421, described as Pan basket with loop handle; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). Pattern is bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax). Overall color is white, Red dye is inner bark of Sugar pine root. Handle is pine root on Hezel fastened with string.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-2421, described as Pan basket with loop handle; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). Pattern is bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax). Overall color is white, Red dye is inner bark of Sugar pine root. Handle is pine root on Hezel fastened with string.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-2421, described as Pan basket with loop handle; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). Pattern is bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax). Overall color is white, Red dye is inner bark of Sugar pine root. Handle is pine root on Hezel fastened with string.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-2421, described as Pan basket with loop handle; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). Pattern is bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax). Overall color is white, Red dye is inner bark of Sugar pine root. Handle is pine root on Hezel fastened with string.

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