Basket

Museum number:
16-20316
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21160020316
Alternate number:
MVC-0486 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Basket; 45.5 cm h, 115.5 circum at top; 148 cm circum. at largest width; outside of basket in open hexangonal weave; inside of basket in open hexangonal weave; between inside and outside layer of leaf or bast fibers; top made from two bent wood sticks wrapped around twice with 4 cm of diagonal caning beginning outside layer, crossing over sticks; inside caning begins at circular element inside basket 4 cm below rim. Used to have a top of the same weave, per KMV.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Ecuador
Verbatim coll. place:
South America; Amazon Valley, Ecuador
Culture or time period:
Ecuadorian cultures
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1965
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
used as hamper in Vitale household
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Dimensions:
largest width— circumference 148 centimeters, height 45.5 centimeters, and circumference 115.5 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: caning broken on inside and at bottom; some holes poked through bast or leaf layer
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 16-20316, described as Basket; 45.5 cm h, 115.5 circum at top; 148 cm circum. at largest width; outside of basket in open hexangonal weave; inside of basket in open hexangonal weave; between inside and outside layer of leaf or bast fibers; top made from two bent wood sticks wrapped around twice with 4 cm of diagonal caning beginning outside layer, crossing over sticks; inside caning begins at circular element inside basket 4 cm below rim. Used to have a top of the same weave, per KMV.

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