Treasure basket

Museum number:
1-71238
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Trinket basket, with handle; diagonal openwork twine. Decoration: Redbud. 2 horizontal bands of diagonally-arranged red stitches.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Mariposa, Mariposa County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mariposa
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
July 1921
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Treasure baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 21 centimeters and diameter 18 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-71238, described as Trinket basket, with handle; diagonal openwork twine. Decoration: Redbud. 2 horizontal bands of diagonally-arranged red stitches.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-71238, described as Trinket basket, with handle; diagonal openwork twine. Decoration: Redbud. 2 horizontal bands of diagonally-arranged red stitches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-71238, described as Trinket basket, with handle; diagonal openwork twine. Decoration: Redbud. 2 horizontal bands of diagonally-arranged red stitches.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-71238, described as Trinket basket, with handle; diagonal openwork twine. Decoration: Redbud. 2 horizontal bands of diagonally-arranged red stitches.

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