1-70225 (attributed PAHMA number) and Lost (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2635 and Acc.838
Description:
Coiled on grass bundle foundation, globular, narrow encircling dark brown diagonal bands; light color: split sumac shoots; black: mud-soaked Juncus rush. Old label says "Mission 1938 L.
Donor:
Barbara E. Busch and Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Southwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Cahuilla and Luiseño
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
ca. 1938
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1970 and February 19, 1945
Context of use:
Money basket - used to store shell money.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
14.4 centimeters and height 13 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "cf. O.T. Mason, Pl. 49 Basket designs of the Mission Indians of California. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. XX, part II, pp. [i-ii], 149-83 plates 5 and 6. New York. Noted as missing 1994. Recataloged from 1-70225.