Basket

Museum number:
1-235263
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2861
Description:
Money basket"; small-necked jar-shaped coiled basket. Design is diagonal blocks each with red hourglass shaped center and black edges; stained with blue ink.
Donor:
Lloyd W. Swift
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Tübatulabal
Collector:
Frank Bishop and Josephine Hall Bishop
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
September 24, 1975
Context of use:
Money basket
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 9 centimeters and diameter 12.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-235263, described as Money basket"; small-necked jar-shaped coiled basket. Design is diagonal blocks each with red hourglass shaped center and black edges; stained with blue ink.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-235263, described as Money basket"; small-necked jar-shaped coiled basket. Design is diagonal blocks each with red hourglass shaped center and black edges; stained with blue ink.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-235263, described as Money basket"; small-necked jar-shaped coiled basket. Design is diagonal blocks each with red hourglass shaped center and black edges; stained with blue ink.

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