Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-4095
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
236 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.101
Description:
Semi-globular basket. One tag has: "Cahuilla att.". On the bottom of the basket "236" on a tag and "57682"(the last two numbers are difficult to read) in ink on the bottom. Description from AMNH Anthropology papers vol. 20: "Small basket of spherical Mission type: no neck or lid. Fig.96. Pattern, a block of two black parallelepipedons each with two diagonal bars; enclosed spaces white, background mottled buff Juncus." Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation. The wefts are sumac (Rhus) at the base turning into a tan juncus background on the sides with black dyed juncus designs. See above for design descriptions, there are two of these designs as well as a third similar design. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The weft fag ends are bound under. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered coil ending with a single backstitch. Possibly but not definitively Cahuilla made.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Southwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Cahuilla and Southwest California tribes
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Dalea, Juncus, Rhus, Sporobolus rigens, and Suaeda
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 6 inches
Comment:
Published: Anthro Papers AMNH vol 20, pp 179, 182. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 7. Ruth Merrill says that the brown dye is Suaeda and the yellow dye is Parosela.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-4095, described as Semi-globular basket. One tag has: "Cahuilla att.". On the bottom of the basket "236" on a tag and "57682"(the last two numbers are difficult to read) in ink on the bottom. Description from AMNH Anthropology papers vol. 20: "Small basket of spherical Mission type: no neck or lid. Fig.96. Pattern, a block of two black parallelepipedons each with two diagonal bars; enclosed spaces white, background mottled buff Juncus." Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation. The wefts are sumac (Rhus) at the base turning into a tan juncus background on the sides with black dyed juncus designs. See above for design descriptions, there are two of these designs as well as a third similar design. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The weft fag ends are bound under. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered coil ending with a single backstitch. Possibly but not definitively Cahuilla made.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-4095, described as Semi-globular basket. One tag has: "Cahuilla att.". On the bottom of the basket "236" on a tag and "57682"(the last two numbers are difficult to read) in ink on the bottom. Description from AMNH Anthropology papers vol. 20: "Small basket of spherical Mission type: no neck or lid. Fig.96. Pattern, a block of two black parallelepipedons each with two diagonal bars; enclosed spaces white, background mottled buff Juncus." Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation. The wefts are sumac (Rhus) at the base turning into a tan juncus background on the sides with black dyed juncus designs. See above for design descriptions, there are two of these designs as well as a third similar design. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The weft fag ends are bound under. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered coil ending with a single backstitch. Possibly but not definitively Cahuilla made.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-4095, described as Semi-globular basket. One tag has: "Cahuilla att.". On the bottom of the basket "236" on a tag and "57682"(the last two numbers are difficult to read) in ink on the bottom. Description from AMNH Anthropology papers vol. 20: "Small basket of spherical Mission type: no neck or lid. Fig.96. Pattern, a block of two black parallelepipedons each with two diagonal bars; enclosed spaces white, background mottled buff Juncus." Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation. The wefts are sumac (Rhus) at the base turning into a tan juncus background on the sides with black dyed juncus designs. See above for design descriptions, there are two of these designs as well as a third similar design. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The weft fag ends are bound under. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered coil ending with a single backstitch. Possibly but not definitively Cahuilla made.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-4095, described as Semi-globular basket. One tag has: "Cahuilla att.". On the bottom of the basket "236" on a tag and "57682"(the last two numbers are difficult to read) in ink on the bottom. Description from AMNH Anthropology papers vol. 20: "Small basket of spherical Mission type: no neck or lid. Fig.96. Pattern, a block of two black parallelepipedons each with two diagonal bars; enclosed spaces white, background mottled buff Juncus." Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation. The wefts are sumac (Rhus) at the base turning into a tan juncus background on the sides with black dyed juncus designs. See above for design descriptions, there are two of these designs as well as a third similar design. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The weft fag ends are bound under. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered coil ending with a single backstitch. Possibly but not definitively Cahuilla made.

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