Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-10183
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010183
Alternate number:
303 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches; rather small in size. The decoration, which is so badly damaged as to be almost obliterated, appears to have consisted of double V-shaped zigzag lines, in red, encircling the basket.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Chicken Ranch, Tuolumne County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tuolumne; Chicken Ranch
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Maker or artist:
Susana Mary
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Redbud and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used as a dipping basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 15.5 centimeters and height 8.3 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "pulissa". For materials, cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 40. Photo: 15-4876. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 44.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10183, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches; rather small in size. The decoration, which is so badly damaged as to be almost obliterated, appears to have consisted of double V-shaped zigzag lines, in red, encircling the basket.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10183, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches; rather small in size. The decoration, which is so badly damaged as to be almost obliterated, appears to have consisted of double V-shaped zigzag lines, in red, encircling the basket.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10183, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches; rather small in size. The decoration, which is so badly damaged as to be almost obliterated, appears to have consisted of double V-shaped zigzag lines, in red, encircling the basket.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10183, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches; rather small in size. The decoration, which is so badly damaged as to be almost obliterated, appears to have consisted of double V-shaped zigzag lines, in red, encircling the basket.

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