Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-70162
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Coiled, plate shape. Tag "7. Porter Mission Type Nov 1938". Tag on interior "Nov. 1938 7 Porter". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation, the start has a cotton-like fiber warp for four coils. The basket has orange juncus design wefts and sumac background wefts. The design is a central flower with 10 petals. The weft fag ends are clipped and the work direction is to the right. The workface is on the interior. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending with three backstitches. There is a hair woven in the interior. Based on the clipped fag ends and other features the basket is attributed to Cahuilla.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Southern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Cahuilla
Collector:
Porter
Collection date:
November 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:
diameter 10 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70162, described as Coiled, plate shape. Tag "7. Porter Mission Type Nov 1938". Tag on interior "Nov. 1938 7 Porter". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation, the start has a cotton-like fiber warp for four coils. The basket has orange juncus design wefts and sumac background wefts. The design is a central flower with 10 petals. The weft fag ends are clipped and the work direction is to the right. The workface is on the interior. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending with three backstitches. There is a hair woven in the interior. Based on the clipped fag ends and other features the basket is attributed to Cahuilla.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70162, described as Coiled, plate shape. Tag "7. Porter Mission Type Nov 1938". Tag on interior "Nov. 1938 7 Porter". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation, the start has a cotton-like fiber warp for four coils. The basket has orange juncus design wefts and sumac background wefts. The design is a central flower with 10 petals. The weft fag ends are clipped and the work direction is to the right. The workface is on the interior. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending with three backstitches. There is a hair woven in the interior. Based on the clipped fag ends and other features the basket is attributed to Cahuilla.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70162, described as Coiled, plate shape. Tag "7. Porter Mission Type Nov 1938". Tag on interior "Nov. 1938 7 Porter". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation, the start has a cotton-like fiber warp for four coils. The basket has orange juncus design wefts and sumac background wefts. The design is a central flower with 10 petals. The weft fag ends are clipped and the work direction is to the right. The workface is on the interior. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending with three backstitches. There is a hair woven in the interior. Based on the clipped fag ends and other features the basket is attributed to Cahuilla.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70162, described as Coiled, plate shape. Tag "7. Porter Mission Type Nov 1938". Tag on interior "Nov. 1938 7 Porter". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation, the start has a cotton-like fiber warp for four coils. The basket has orange juncus design wefts and sumac background wefts. The design is a central flower with 10 petals. The weft fag ends are clipped and the work direction is to the right. The workface is on the interior. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending with three backstitches. There is a hair woven in the interior. Based on the clipped fag ends and other features the basket is attributed to Cahuilla.

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