Mush basket
- Museum number:
- 1-3948
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010003948
- Alternate number:
- 946 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.114
- Description:
- Mush basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina).
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Picayune rancheria, Madera County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- from the Chukchansi at Picyuna (Katanin) 5 m from coarse Gold, Madera county.
- Culture or time period:
- Chukchansi
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection date:
- January 8-17, 1904
- Materials:
- Brake fern and Sedge
- Taxon:
- Carex, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Coiled weaving and Mush basket bowl
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- For mush.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 35.8 centimeters and height 10.5 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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