Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-71630
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Coiled, bowl shaped. Decoration: 3 horizontal zones. (1) 3 hourglass-like figures and one pair of horizontal lines (top zone), (2) encircling black line with bottom halves of inverted diamonds, (3) row of inverted diamonds, with tops in black and bottoms in red (lowest zone). Design materials are redbud and bracken fern root. Coiled on a bundle foundation. Stitches appear evenly divided between non-interlocking and split stitches.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
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 24 centimeters and height 14 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71630, described as Coiled, bowl shaped. Decoration: 3 horizontal zones. (1) 3 hourglass-like figures and one pair of horizontal lines (top zone), (2) encircling black line with bottom halves of inverted diamonds, (3) row of inverted diamonds, with tops in black and bottoms in red (lowest zone). Design materials are redbud and bracken fern root. Coiled on a bundle foundation. Stitches appear evenly divided between non-interlocking and split stitches.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71630, described as Coiled, bowl shaped. Decoration: 3 horizontal zones. (1) 3 hourglass-like figures and one pair of horizontal lines (top zone), (2) encircling black line with bottom halves of inverted diamonds, (3) row of inverted diamonds, with tops in black and bottoms in red (lowest zone). Design materials are redbud and bracken fern root. Coiled on a bundle foundation. Stitches appear evenly divided between non-interlocking and split stitches.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71630, described as Coiled, bowl shaped. Decoration: 3 horizontal zones. (1) 3 hourglass-like figures and one pair of horizontal lines (top zone), (2) encircling black line with bottom halves of inverted diamonds, (3) row of inverted diamonds, with tops in black and bottoms in red (lowest zone). Design materials are redbud and bracken fern root. Coiled on a bundle foundation. Stitches appear evenly divided between non-interlocking and split stitches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71630, described as Coiled, bowl shaped. Decoration: 3 horizontal zones. (1) 3 hourglass-like figures and one pair of horizontal lines (top zone), (2) encircling black line with bottom halves of inverted diamonds, (3) row of inverted diamonds, with tops in black and bottoms in red (lowest zone). Design materials are redbud and bracken fern root. Coiled on a bundle foundation. Stitches appear evenly divided between non-interlocking and split stitches.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71630, described as Coiled, bowl shaped. Decoration: 3 horizontal zones. (1) 3 hourglass-like figures and one pair of horizontal lines (top zone), (2) encircling black line with bottom halves of inverted diamonds, (3) row of inverted diamonds, with tops in black and bottoms in red (lowest zone). Design materials are redbud and bracken fern root. Coiled on a bundle foundation. Stitches appear evenly divided between non-interlocking and split stitches.

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