Tray

Museum number:
1-28807
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.662
Description:
Basketry plaque, coiled with interlocking stitches on grass bundle foundation. Decoration: two encircling bands of triangles in dark brown material (grass and brackenfern root). Basket has insect holes.
Donor:
Ella F. Plummer
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Southern Sierra Miwok
Collector:
Ella F. Plummer
Collection date:
1933
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Coiled weaving, and Trays
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1933
Context of use:
Meal shaker, primarily for acorn meal.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 3.5 centimeters and diameter 41.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1967-1968 #25 [formerly I-54-B]: University of California, Riverside/John F. Goins (July 1, 1954–present)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Tray, accession number 1-28807, described as Basketry plaque, coiled with interlocking stitches on grass bundle foundation. Decoration: two encircling bands of triangles in dark brown material (grass and brackenfern root). Basket has insect holes.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Tray, accession number 1-28807, described as Basketry plaque, coiled with interlocking stitches on grass bundle foundation. Decoration: two encircling bands of triangles in dark brown material (grass and brackenfern root). Basket has insect holes.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Tray, accession number 1-28807, described as Basketry plaque, coiled with interlocking stitches on grass bundle foundation. Decoration: two encircling bands of triangles in dark brown material (grass and brackenfern root). Basket has insect holes.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 1-28807, described as Basketry plaque, coiled with interlocking stitches on grass bundle foundation. Decoration: two encircling bands of triangles in dark brown material (grass and brackenfern root). Basket has insect holes.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 1-28807, described as Basketry plaque, coiled with interlocking stitches on grass bundle foundation. Decoration: two encircling bands of triangles in dark brown material (grass and brackenfern root). Basket has insect holes.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 1-28807, described as Basketry plaque, coiled with interlocking stitches on grass bundle foundation. Decoration: two encircling bands of triangles in dark brown material (grass and brackenfern root). Basket has insect holes.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 1-28807, described as Basketry plaque, coiled with interlocking stitches on grass bundle foundation. Decoration: two encircling bands of triangles in dark brown material (grass and brackenfern root). Basket has insect holes.

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