Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-70543
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Coiled, wide bottom. Grass coil, sumac sewing, Juncus design. Detached tag "Yokuts [Yokuts crossed out] Type Mission". On other side of tag "grass sumac juncus". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, incurving towards the mouth. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation. The wefts are brown and black dyed juncus designs, a sumac or other peeled shoot background, and a tan juncus rim. The designs are three vertical bands of triangles and v shapes, and three vertical bands of double crosses. Exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has a tight spiral starting knot and bound under weft fag ends. It has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending with over an inch of herringbone stitches. A grey hair is woven into the basket about 3/4 of an inch from the rim.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Southwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Southwest California tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 11 inches and height 5 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70543, described as Coiled, wide bottom. Grass coil, sumac sewing, Juncus design. Detached tag "Yokuts [Yokuts crossed out] Type Mission". On other side of tag "grass sumac juncus". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, incurving towards the mouth. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation. The wefts are brown and black dyed juncus designs, a sumac or other peeled shoot background, and a tan juncus rim. The designs are three vertical bands of triangles and v shapes, and three vertical bands of double crosses. Exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has a tight spiral starting knot and bound under weft fag ends. It has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending with over an inch of herringbone stitches. A grey hair is woven into the basket about 3/4 of an inch from the rim.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70543, described as Coiled, wide bottom. Grass coil, sumac sewing, Juncus design. Detached tag "Yokuts [Yokuts crossed out] Type Mission". On other side of tag "grass sumac juncus". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, incurving towards the mouth. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation. The wefts are brown and black dyed juncus designs, a sumac or other peeled shoot background, and a tan juncus rim. The designs are three vertical bands of triangles and v shapes, and three vertical bands of double crosses. Exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has a tight spiral starting knot and bound under weft fag ends. It has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending with over an inch of herringbone stitches. A grey hair is woven into the basket about 3/4 of an inch from the rim.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70543, described as Coiled, wide bottom. Grass coil, sumac sewing, Juncus design. Detached tag "Yokuts [Yokuts crossed out] Type Mission". On other side of tag "grass sumac juncus". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, incurving towards the mouth. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation. The wefts are brown and black dyed juncus designs, a sumac or other peeled shoot background, and a tan juncus rim. The designs are three vertical bands of triangles and v shapes, and three vertical bands of double crosses. Exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has a tight spiral starting knot and bound under weft fag ends. It has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending with over an inch of herringbone stitches. A grey hair is woven into the basket about 3/4 of an inch from the rim.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70543, described as Coiled, wide bottom. Grass coil, sumac sewing, Juncus design. Detached tag "Yokuts [Yokuts crossed out] Type Mission". On other side of tag "grass sumac juncus". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, incurving towards the mouth. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation. The wefts are brown and black dyed juncus designs, a sumac or other peeled shoot background, and a tan juncus rim. The designs are three vertical bands of triangles and v shapes, and three vertical bands of double crosses. Exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has a tight spiral starting knot and bound under weft fag ends. It has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending with over an inch of herringbone stitches. A grey hair is woven into the basket about 3/4 of an inch from the rim.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70543, described as Coiled, wide bottom. Grass coil, sumac sewing, Juncus design. Detached tag "Yokuts [Yokuts crossed out] Type Mission". On other side of tag "grass sumac juncus". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, incurving towards the mouth. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation. The wefts are brown and black dyed juncus designs, a sumac or other peeled shoot background, and a tan juncus rim. The designs are three vertical bands of triangles and v shapes, and three vertical bands of double crosses. Exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has a tight spiral starting knot and bound under weft fag ends. It has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending with over an inch of herringbone stitches. A grey hair is woven into the basket about 3/4 of an inch from the rim.

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