Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-70130
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010070130
Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Coiled, plate shape. Tag found attached to basket has "Mission May 18, '38" on it. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl with outward sloping sides. Basket is in a rightward work direction with bound under weft fag ends. The workface is on the interior. Deer grass bundle foundation. The background wefts are sumac, with natural orange, tan, and black dyed juncus designs, four colors in all. The basket has many abstract designs, including crosses, parallelograms, and arrowheads. The rim is plain wrapped.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Southern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Southwest California tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
May 18, 1938
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 3 inches and diameter 12 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70130, described as Coiled, plate shape. Tag found attached to basket has "Mission May 18, '38" on it. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl with outward sloping sides. Basket is in a rightward work direction with bound under weft fag ends. The workface is on the interior. Deer grass bundle foundation. The background wefts are sumac, with natural orange, tan, and black dyed juncus designs, four colors in all. The basket has many abstract designs, including crosses, parallelograms, and arrowheads. The rim is plain wrapped.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70130, described as Coiled, plate shape. Tag found attached to basket has "Mission May 18, '38" on it. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl with outward sloping sides. Basket is in a rightward work direction with bound under weft fag ends. The workface is on the interior. Deer grass bundle foundation. The background wefts are sumac, with natural orange, tan, and black dyed juncus designs, four colors in all. The basket has many abstract designs, including crosses, parallelograms, and arrowheads. The rim is plain wrapped.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70130, described as Coiled, plate shape. Tag found attached to basket has "Mission May 18, '38" on it. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl with outward sloping sides. Basket is in a rightward work direction with bound under weft fag ends. The workface is on the interior. Deer grass bundle foundation. The background wefts are sumac, with natural orange, tan, and black dyed juncus designs, four colors in all. The basket has many abstract designs, including crosses, parallelograms, and arrowheads. The rim is plain wrapped.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70130, described as Coiled, plate shape. Tag found attached to basket has "Mission May 18, '38" on it. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl with outward sloping sides. Basket is in a rightward work direction with bound under weft fag ends. The workface is on the interior. Deer grass bundle foundation. The background wefts are sumac, with natural orange, tan, and black dyed juncus designs, four colors in all. The basket has many abstract designs, including crosses, parallelograms, and arrowheads. The rim is plain wrapped.

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