Burden basket

Museum number:
1-71499
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Burden basket, open diagonal twined, with willow hoop reinforcing basket at rim. Decoration: 8 horizontal red bands; near point, 1 band of diagonal black slashes. Point of basket is reinforced with white cloth.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Burden baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Context of use:
Used in transporting harvested food products.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 58 centimeters and diameter 53 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Burden basket, accession number 1-71499, described as Burden basket, open diagonal twined, with willow hoop reinforcing basket at rim. Decoration: 8 horizontal red bands; near point, 1 band of diagonal black slashes. Point of basket is reinforced with white cloth.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Burden basket, accession number 1-71499, described as Burden basket, open diagonal twined, with willow hoop reinforcing basket at rim. Decoration: 8 horizontal red bands; near point, 1 band of diagonal black slashes. Point of basket is reinforced with white cloth.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-71499, described as Burden basket, open diagonal twined, with willow hoop reinforcing basket at rim. Decoration: 8 horizontal red bands; near point, 1 band of diagonal black slashes. Point of basket is reinforced with white cloth.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-71499, described as Burden basket, open diagonal twined, with willow hoop reinforcing basket at rim. Decoration: 8 horizontal red bands; near point, 1 band of diagonal black slashes. Point of basket is reinforced with white cloth.

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