Basket

Museum number:
1-236808
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010236808
Alternate number:
13 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2802
Description:
Coiled, flat bottom, conical shape. Design of black cross diagonals, some small zigzags and hour glass shapes near the rim, diagonal overstitch on rim. Note: lower section of basket made by differend hand than upper portion. Possibly different tribe since work direction is opposite. Grass bundle foundation; sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots. All non-interlocking stitch.f
Donor:
Mrs. George H. Crooks
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
Collected in Ahwahnee
Culture or time period:
Western Mono
Collector:
Mrs. W. M. Sell and Mr. W. M. Sell
Collection date:
1903-1905
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
Type used for boiling mush.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 26 centimeters and diameter 51 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-236808, described as Coiled, flat bottom, conical shape. Design of black cross diagonals, some small zigzags and hour glass shapes near the rim, diagonal overstitch on rim. Note: lower section of basket made by differend hand than upper portion. Possibly different tribe since work direction is opposite. Grass bundle foundation; sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots. All non-interlocking stitch.fHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-236808, described as Coiled, flat bottom, conical shape. Design of black cross diagonals, some small zigzags and hour glass shapes near the rim, diagonal overstitch on rim. Note: lower section of basket made by differend hand than upper portion. Possibly different tribe since work direction is opposite. Grass bundle foundation; sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots. All non-interlocking stitch.f
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-236808, described as Coiled, flat bottom, conical shape. Design of black cross diagonals, some small zigzags and hour glass shapes near the rim, diagonal overstitch on rim. Note: lower section of basket made by differend hand than upper portion. Possibly different tribe since work direction is opposite. Grass bundle foundation; sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots. All non-interlocking stitch.f

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