Basket

Museum number:
1-224782
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2587
Description:
Deep, tub-shaped, coiled. Grass bundle foundation. Bracken fern root design material on ground of sedge root; 3 zigzag design bands.
Donor:
James H. Short and Mrs. James H. Short
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Western Mono
Collector:
Mrs. Raymond B. Wilson and Raymond B. Wilson
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
March 26, 1970
Context of use:
Used for boiling acorn mush.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 25 centimeters and diameter 47 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-224782, described as Deep, tub-shaped, coiled. Grass bundle foundation. Bracken fern root design material on ground of sedge root; 3 zigzag design bands.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-224782, described as Deep, tub-shaped, coiled. Grass bundle foundation. Bracken fern root design material on ground of sedge root; 3 zigzag design bands.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-224782, described as Deep, tub-shaped, coiled. Grass bundle foundation. Bracken fern root design material on ground of sedge root; 3 zigzag design bands.

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