Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-72938
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010072938
Alternate number:
63/26 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.485
Description:
Coiled, bowl-shaped; brown designs; 3-rod foundation. Three tags "63 Maidu [Maidu added later perhaps] Shoemaker". The second on the base "26" in large writing with "29" in the upper right corner. The last tag just has the catalog number. Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring basket bowl, coiled. Foundation is three-rod willow. The background material is willow. The design material is bracken fern root. The designs include a repeating pattern of seven sets of two vertical zigzags and four vertical triangles on a line. The basket has an oval start. The basket has an exterior workface and is woven in a leftward work direction with non-interlocking stitches. The weft fag ends are clipped as well as sometimes hidden. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered coil ending. The leftward work direction, the non-interlocking stitches, and the design pattern make this likely to be a Paiute basket.
Donor:
Gertrude C. Shoemaker
Collection place:
Great Basin, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Paiute
Collector:
David Shoemaker
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1915
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 7.1 centimeters and width 20 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-72938, described as Coiled, bowl-shaped; brown designs; 3-rod foundation. Three tags "63 Maidu [Maidu added later perhaps] Shoemaker". The second on the base "26" in large writing with "29" in the upper right corner. The last tag just has the catalog number. Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring basket bowl, coiled. Foundation is three-rod willow. The background material is willow. The design material is bracken fern root. The designs include a repeating pattern of seven sets of two vertical zigzags and four vertical triangles on a line. The basket has an oval start. The basket has an exterior workface and is woven in a leftward work direction with non-interlocking stitches. The weft fag ends are clipped as well as sometimes hidden. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered coil ending. The leftward work direction, the non-interlocking stitches, and the design pattern make this likely to be a Paiute basket.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-72938, described as Coiled, bowl-shaped; brown designs; 3-rod foundation. Three tags "63 Maidu [Maidu added later perhaps] Shoemaker". The second on the base "26" in large writing with "29" in the upper right corner. The last tag just has the catalog number. Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring basket bowl, coiled. Foundation is three-rod willow. The background material is willow. The design material is bracken fern root. The designs include a repeating pattern of seven sets of two vertical zigzags and four vertical triangles on a line. The basket has an oval start. The basket has an exterior workface and is woven in a leftward work direction with non-interlocking stitches. The weft fag ends are clipped as well as sometimes hidden. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered coil ending. The leftward work direction, the non-interlocking stitches, and the design pattern make this likely to be a Paiute basket.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-72938, described as Coiled, bowl-shaped; brown designs; 3-rod foundation. Three tags "63 Maidu [Maidu added later perhaps] Shoemaker". The second on the base "26" in large writing with "29" in the upper right corner. The last tag just has the catalog number. Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring basket bowl, coiled. Foundation is three-rod willow. The background material is willow. The design material is bracken fern root. The designs include a repeating pattern of seven sets of two vertical zigzags and four vertical triangles on a line. The basket has an oval start. The basket has an exterior workface and is woven in a leftward work direction with non-interlocking stitches. The weft fag ends are clipped as well as sometimes hidden. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered coil ending. The leftward work direction, the non-interlocking stitches, and the design pattern make this likely to be a Paiute basket.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-72938, described as Coiled, bowl-shaped; brown designs; 3-rod foundation. Three tags "63 Maidu [Maidu added later perhaps] Shoemaker". The second on the base "26" in large writing with "29" in the upper right corner. The last tag just has the catalog number. Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring basket bowl, coiled. Foundation is three-rod willow. The background material is willow. The design material is bracken fern root. The designs include a repeating pattern of seven sets of two vertical zigzags and four vertical triangles on a line. The basket has an oval start. The basket has an exterior workface and is woven in a leftward work direction with non-interlocking stitches. The weft fag ends are clipped as well as sometimes hidden. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered coil ending. The leftward work direction, the non-interlocking stitches, and the design pattern make this likely to be a Paiute basket.

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