Basket

Museum number:
1-233744
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010233744
Accession number:
Acc.2728
Description:
Tray, novelty basketry, with handles. Coiled; willow stick warp, wefts of redbud (light) and bracken fern root (dark). Handles are fiber-wrapped willow sticks. Design is doubled zigzag all around body.
Donor:
Bill Reed Adams, Ira Carlton Adams, Jeffrey Carlton Adams, and Rosemary Jeffreys Adams
Collection place:
Great Basin, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Washo
Collector:
Ira Carlton Adams
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
Sold as tourist novelty.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 23 centimeters and height 3.9 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-233744, described as Tray, novelty basketry, with handles. Coiled; willow stick warp, wefts of redbud (light) and bracken fern root (dark). Handles are fiber-wrapped willow sticks. Design is doubled zigzag all around body.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-233744, described as Tray, novelty basketry, with handles. Coiled; willow stick warp, wefts of redbud (light) and bracken fern root (dark). Handles are fiber-wrapped willow sticks. Design is doubled zigzag all around body.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-233744, described as Tray, novelty basketry, with handles. Coiled; willow stick warp, wefts of redbud (light) and bracken fern root (dark). Handles are fiber-wrapped willow sticks. Design is doubled zigzag all around body.

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