Basket

Museum number:
1-144997
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010144997
Accession number:
Acc.1694
Description:
Coiled basket, three rows of hourglass and vertical chevron designs in redbud and bracken root. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge root, redbud shoot, and bracken fern root.
Donor:
Mrs. Jean W. Macfarlane
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Central California; South Central
Culture or time period:
Southern Valley Yokuts
Collector:
Friend of Mrs. Jean W. Macfarlane
Collection date:
Before 1912
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1963
Context of use:
Mush boiling basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 35.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1972-1973 #2: unknown borrower (July 13, 1972–July 18, 1972)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-144997, described as Coiled basket, three rows of hourglass and vertical chevron designs in redbud and bracken root. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge root, redbud shoot, and bracken fern root.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-144997, described as Coiled basket, three rows of hourglass and vertical chevron designs in redbud and bracken root. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge root, redbud shoot, and bracken fern root.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-144997, described as Coiled basket, three rows of hourglass and vertical chevron designs in redbud and bracken root. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge root, redbud shoot, and bracken fern root.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-144997, described as Coiled basket, three rows of hourglass and vertical chevron designs in redbud and bracken root. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge root, redbud shoot, and bracken fern root.

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