Basket

Museum number:
1-28450
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010028450
Accession number:
Acc.662
Description:
Meal shaker basket, red bands. Sumac shoot warp, weft of sedge root and split redbud shoots. Diagonal twined.
Donor:
Ella F. Plummer
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Central California; South Central
Culture or time period:
Western Mono
Collector:
Ella F. Plummer
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1933
Context of use:
Winnowing basket, for segregating acorn meal and for winnowing.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 58.4 centimeters and width 44.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1975-1976 #35: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (November 20, 1975–January 29, 1976) and S1979-1980 #9: DeAnza College (August 31, 1979–December 17, 1979)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-28450, described as Meal shaker basket, red bands. Sumac shoot warp, weft of sedge root and split redbud shoots. Diagonal twined.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-28450, described as Meal shaker basket, red bands. Sumac shoot warp, weft of sedge root and split redbud shoots. Diagonal twined.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-28450, described as Meal shaker basket, red bands. Sumac shoot warp, weft of sedge root and split redbud shoots. Diagonal twined.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-28450, described as Meal shaker basket, red bands. Sumac shoot warp, weft of sedge root and split redbud shoots. Diagonal twined.

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