Miniature basket

Museum number:
1-236840
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
30 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2802
Description:
Coiled. Miniature bowl shape. Black and red checked pattern, overstitch rim. Mouse damage to rim. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots, also split redbud shoots.
Donor:
Mrs. George H. Crooks
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
Collected in Ahwahnee
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Mrs. W. M. Sell and Mr. W. M. Sell
Collection date:
1903-1905
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers), Coiled weaving, and Miniature (size attribute)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
Made for sale.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 3 centimeters and diameter 6.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Miniature basket, accession number 1-236840, described as Coiled. Miniature bowl shape. Black and red checked pattern, overstitch rim. Mouse damage to rim. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots, also split redbud shoots.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Miniature basket, accession number 1-236840, described as Coiled. Miniature bowl shape. Black and red checked pattern, overstitch rim. Mouse damage to rim. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots, also split redbud shoots.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Miniature basket, accession number 1-236840, described as Coiled. Miniature bowl shape. Black and red checked pattern, overstitch rim. Mouse damage to rim. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots, also split redbud shoots.

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