Basket

Museum number:
1-224785
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2587
Description:
Globular. Plain twined with designs in overlay technique. Design bands of parallelograms each with 3 vertical columns. Rim damaged. 3 pairs of diagonal rows of parallelograms, i.e. 6 altogether. Peeled shoot warps, pine root weft; overlay in maidenhair fern stem (black) and Xerophyllum tenax.
Donor:
James H. Short and Mrs. James H. Short
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wintu
Collector:
Mrs. Raymond B. Wilson and Raymond B. Wilson
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
March 26, 1970
Context of use:
For boiling acorn mush.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 32 centimeters and height 28 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-224785, described as Globular. Plain twined with designs in overlay technique. Design bands of parallelograms each with 3 vertical columns. Rim damaged. 3 pairs of diagonal rows of parallelograms, i.e. 6 altogether. Peeled shoot warps, pine root weft; overlay in maidenhair fern stem (black) and Xerophyllum tenax.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-224785, described as Globular. Plain twined with designs in overlay technique. Design bands of parallelograms each with 3 vertical columns. Rim damaged. 3 pairs of diagonal rows of parallelograms, i.e. 6 altogether. Peeled shoot warps, pine root weft; overlay in maidenhair fern stem (black) and Xerophyllum tenax.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-224785, described as Globular. Plain twined with designs in overlay technique. Design bands of parallelograms each with 3 vertical columns. Rim damaged. 3 pairs of diagonal rows of parallelograms, i.e. 6 altogether. Peeled shoot warps, pine root weft; overlay in maidenhair fern stem (black) and Xerophyllum tenax.

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