Basket

Museum number:
2-29442
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1153
Description:
Pitched basketry water bottle.
Donor:
Mrs. Charles C. Cushing
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1955
Context of use:
Apache water olla, tūs, twined and covered with piñon (pinus edulis) pitch to prevent leaks and make the ollas waterproof. Soft pitch is poured into the olla with hot rocks, and it is turned until the whole interior of the basket is covered. There was always a concerted effort to make the exterior as smooth as possible for one’s pride as a skilled weaver, but the work done for ollas was hardly the best one could offer since pitch would cover up any holes. Plain exteriors were common. Ollas are carried around the back and suspended by lugs made of horsehair, buckskin, or leather.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
No. Pieces: "3 lumps in a box" Apache Indian Baskets, Turner The Basketry of the San Carlos Apache, Roberts (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. XXXI, Part II)
Loans:
S1968-1969 #43: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (November 7, 1968–November 7, 1968) and S1983-1984 #54: SFO Museum (May 22, 1984–November 12, 1984)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-29442, described as Pitched basketry water bottle.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 2-29442, described as Pitched basketry water bottle.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-29442, described as Pitched basketry water bottle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-29442, described as Pitched basketry water bottle.

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