Winnowing tray

Museum number:
1-2977
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.42
Description:
Per ledger: "Basket: coiled, flat. three colored bands, South Central Calif type." [Based on 7 others in the database, these were given the culture group of California Tribes with the Provenience of Southern California. There were no others listed as South Central California. 2-3-2003 KD] Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled winnowing basket tray, showing use from parching. Deergrass bundle foundation. The basket has willow background wefts. The designs are in black bracken fern root and red Joshua tree root. The design includes one undulating line of red and two concentric circles of black. The basket has an interior workface and a rightward work direction with clipped and bound under weft fag ends. The wefts are not tightly spaced. Plain wrapped rim, with wefts more closely spaced than the rest of the basket, the coil ending is tapered. The origin of the basket is probably Kawaiisu or Tubatulabal. There is a hair near the rim of the basket.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tehachapi Mountains, Kern County, California
Culture or time period:
Tübatulabal
Collection date:
1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Coiled weaving, and Winnowers (agricultural equipment)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
May 2, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Loans:
S1970-1971 #53: Janice W. Boyce/Janice W. Boyce (November 20, 1970–November 20, 1970)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Winnowing tray, accession number 1-2977, described as Per ledger: "Basket: coiled, flat. three colored bands, South Central Calif type." [Based on 7 others in the database, these were given the culture group of California Tribes with the Provenience of Southern California. There were no others listed as South Central California. 2-3-2003 KD] Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled winnowing basket tray, showing use from parching. Deergrass bundle foundation. The basket has willow background wefts. The designs are in black bracken fern root and red Joshua tree root. The design includes one undulating line of red and two concentric circles of black. The basket has an interior workface and a rightward work direction with clipped and bound under weft fag ends. The wefts are not tightly spaced. Plain wrapped rim, with wefts more closely spaced than the rest of the basket, the coil ending is tapered. The origin of the basket is probably Kawaiisu or Tubatulabal. There is a hair near the rim of the basket.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Winnowing tray, accession number 1-2977, described as Per ledger: "Basket: coiled, flat. three colored bands, South Central Calif type." [Based on 7 others in the database, these were given the culture group of California Tribes with the Provenience of Southern California. There were no others listed as South Central California. 2-3-2003 KD] Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled winnowing basket tray, showing use from parching. Deergrass bundle foundation. The basket has willow background wefts. The designs are in black bracken fern root and red Joshua tree root. The design includes one undulating line of red and two concentric circles of black. The basket has an interior workface and a rightward work direction with clipped and bound under weft fag ends. The wefts are not tightly spaced. Plain wrapped rim, with wefts more closely spaced than the rest of the basket, the coil ending is tapered. The origin of the basket is probably Kawaiisu or Tubatulabal. There is a hair near the rim of the basket.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Winnowing tray, accession number 1-2977, described as Per ledger: "Basket: coiled, flat. three colored bands, South Central Calif type." [Based on 7 others in the database, these were given the culture group of California Tribes with the Provenience of Southern California. There were no others listed as South Central California. 2-3-2003 KD] Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled winnowing basket tray, showing use from parching. Deergrass bundle foundation. The basket has willow background wefts. The designs are in black bracken fern root and red Joshua tree root. The design includes one undulating line of red and two concentric circles of black. The basket has an interior workface and a rightward work direction with clipped and bound under weft fag ends. The wefts are not tightly spaced. Plain wrapped rim, with wefts more closely spaced than the rest of the basket, the coil ending is tapered. The origin of the basket is probably Kawaiisu or Tubatulabal. There is a hair near the rim of the basket.

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