Basket tray

Museum number:
1-11024
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
70 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.269 and Acc.270
Description:
Coiled basket tray, mended.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Torres-Martinez Reservation, Riverside County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Riverside; Torros Reservation
Culture or time period:
Cahuilla
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
March 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basket trays, Coiled weaving, and Trays
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used by medicine men in dancing. Two ornaments are worn at the side of the head and the third is held in the hand.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Catalog cards 1-11020 through 1-11023 refer to this object as an owl feather pin.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket tray, accession number 1-11024, described as Coiled basket tray, mended.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket tray, accession number 1-11024, described as Coiled basket tray, mended.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket tray, accession number 1-11024, described as Coiled basket tray, mended.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket tray, accession number 1-11024, described as Coiled basket tray, mended.

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