Basket

Museum number:
1-259605
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
EC-61 (temporary number)
Accession number:
Acc.4787
Description:
Small, maidenhair fern (black & red), bear grass (ground), willow sticks (warp) & willow root (base) basket. Natural ground with black friendship design. Excellent condition. Collected 1935; made in the 1920s or earlier.
Donor:
Elizabeth Colson
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Hupa
Collector:
Elizabeth Colson
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
September 9, 2011
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8.5 centimeters and diameter 14 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-259605, described as Small, maidenhair fern (black & red), bear grass (ground), willow sticks (warp) & willow root (base) basket. Natural ground with black friendship design. Excellent condition. Collected 1935; made in the 1920s or earlier.

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