Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-10923
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010923
Alternate number:
786 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.264, Acc.265, and Acc.266
Description:
Cooking basket; twined. Warp and weft are Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Very old diagonal twined, with alternate (zigzag design) of white and red. The pattern in this basket is very unusual on account of the fact that the zigzags are but a single stitch in width and give the effect of a herring bone pattern.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Dunlap, Fresno County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Fresno; Dunlap
Culture or time period:
Western Mono
Collector:
Franklin Fenenga
Collection date:
February 1907
Materials:
Redbud
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Cooking basket
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 30.9 centimeters and diameter 37.9 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 page 43
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10923, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp and weft are Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Very old diagonal twined, with alternate (zigzag design) of white and red. The pattern in this basket is very unusual on account of the fact that the zigzags are but a single stitch in width and give the effect of a herring bone pattern.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10923, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp and weft are Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Very old diagonal twined, with alternate (zigzag design) of white and red. The pattern in this basket is very unusual on account of the fact that the zigzags are but a single stitch in width and give the effect of a herring bone pattern.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10923, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp and weft are Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Very old diagonal twined, with alternate (zigzag design) of white and red. The pattern in this basket is very unusual on account of the fact that the zigzags are but a single stitch in width and give the effect of a herring bone pattern.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10923, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp and weft are Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Very old diagonal twined, with alternate (zigzag design) of white and red. The pattern in this basket is very unusual on account of the fact that the zigzags are but a single stitch in width and give the effect of a herring bone pattern.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10923, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp and weft are Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Very old diagonal twined, with alternate (zigzag design) of white and red. The pattern in this basket is very unusual on account of the fact that the zigzags are but a single stitch in width and give the effect of a herring bone pattern.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10923, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp and weft are Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Very old diagonal twined, with alternate (zigzag design) of white and red. The pattern in this basket is very unusual on account of the fact that the zigzags are but a single stitch in width and give the effect of a herring bone pattern.

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