Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-10123
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010123
Alternate number:
239 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: 2 double rows of horizontally parallel black bands.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Avery, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Avery
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett and Texas
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Brake fern, Maple (wood), and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Acer macrophyllum, Pteris quilina, and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 12.8 centimeters and diameter 26.3 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "hima" - generic term for kind of basket; "lunata" - design. Materials: cf. Supplemental Catalogue 1, p. 40. Photo: 15-5970. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 52.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10123, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: 2 double rows of horizontally parallel black bands.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10123, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: 2 double rows of horizontally parallel black bands.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10123, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: 2 double rows of horizontally parallel black bands.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10123, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: 2 double rows of horizontally parallel black bands.

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