Storage basket

Museum number:
1-70111
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled burden and storage basket. Deergrass bundle foundation. The basket has a central design band with a mottled juncus design of tan and vertical curvilinear bands of orange juncus wefts with stepped bands of black dyed juncus rectangles at the top and the bottom of the design. The wefts above and below the design band are sumac. The basket has an interior workface and the work direction is to the right. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under with some clipped fag ends. The rim is plain wrapped with the coil ending tapered with herringbone stitches. The basket is from Southwestern California. There is a hair woven in four coils below the rim on the interior.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Southwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Southwest California tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 10 inches and diameter 19 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Storage basket, accession number 1-70111, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled burden and storage basket. Deergrass bundle foundation. The basket has a central design band with a mottled juncus design of tan and vertical curvilinear bands of orange juncus wefts with stepped bands of black dyed juncus rectangles at the top and the bottom of the design. The wefts above and below the design band are sumac. The basket has an interior workface and the work direction is to the right. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under with some clipped fag ends. The rim is plain wrapped with the coil ending tapered with herringbone stitches. The basket is from Southwestern California. There is a hair woven in four coils below the rim on the interior.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Storage basket, accession number 1-70111, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled burden and storage basket. Deergrass bundle foundation. The basket has a central design band with a mottled juncus design of tan and vertical curvilinear bands of orange juncus wefts with stepped bands of black dyed juncus rectangles at the top and the bottom of the design. The wefts above and below the design band are sumac. The basket has an interior workface and the work direction is to the right. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under with some clipped fag ends. The rim is plain wrapped with the coil ending tapered with herringbone stitches. The basket is from Southwestern California. There is a hair woven in four coils below the rim on the interior.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-70111, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled burden and storage basket. Deergrass bundle foundation. The basket has a central design band with a mottled juncus design of tan and vertical curvilinear bands of orange juncus wefts with stepped bands of black dyed juncus rectangles at the top and the bottom of the design. The wefts above and below the design band are sumac. The basket has an interior workface and the work direction is to the right. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under with some clipped fag ends. The rim is plain wrapped with the coil ending tapered with herringbone stitches. The basket is from Southwestern California. There is a hair woven in four coils below the rim on the interior.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-70111, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled burden and storage basket. Deergrass bundle foundation. The basket has a central design band with a mottled juncus design of tan and vertical curvilinear bands of orange juncus wefts with stepped bands of black dyed juncus rectangles at the top and the bottom of the design. The wefts above and below the design band are sumac. The basket has an interior workface and the work direction is to the right. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under with some clipped fag ends. The rim is plain wrapped with the coil ending tapered with herringbone stitches. The basket is from Southwestern California. There is a hair woven in four coils below the rim on the interior.

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