Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-64297
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.787
Description:
Coiled, small, brown design. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl. Single rod foundation. Background wefts are sedge root and the design wefts are redbud. The design at the base is a flower/star pattern. At the rim there is a horizontal band of downward pointing triangles. The weft fag ends are clipped. The basket has an exterior workface with a leftward work direction. It has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending. Based on the technical features, such as the clipped fag ends, makes this basket likely to be Sierra Miwok.
Donor:
A. G. McFarland and Mrs. A. G. McFarland
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Sierra Miwok
Collector:
Lillian McClure
Collection date:
1900-1920
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1941
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 6.9 centimeters and diameter 10.1 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-64297, described as Coiled, small, brown design. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl. Single rod foundation. Background wefts are sedge root and the design wefts are redbud. The design at the base is a flower/star pattern. At the rim there is a horizontal band of downward pointing triangles. The weft fag ends are clipped. The basket has an exterior workface with a leftward work direction. It has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending. Based on the technical features, such as the clipped fag ends, makes this basket likely to be Sierra Miwok.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-64297, described as Coiled, small, brown design. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl. Single rod foundation. Background wefts are sedge root and the design wefts are redbud. The design at the base is a flower/star pattern. At the rim there is a horizontal band of downward pointing triangles. The weft fag ends are clipped. The basket has an exterior workface with a leftward work direction. It has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending. Based on the technical features, such as the clipped fag ends, makes this basket likely to be Sierra Miwok.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-64297, described as Coiled, small, brown design. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl. Single rod foundation. Background wefts are sedge root and the design wefts are redbud. The design at the base is a flower/star pattern. At the rim there is a horizontal band of downward pointing triangles. The weft fag ends are clipped. The basket has an exterior workface with a leftward work direction. It has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending. Based on the technical features, such as the clipped fag ends, makes this basket likely to be Sierra Miwok.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-64297, described as Coiled, small, brown design. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl. Single rod foundation. Background wefts are sedge root and the design wefts are redbud. The design at the base is a flower/star pattern. At the rim there is a horizontal band of downward pointing triangles. The weft fag ends are clipped. The basket has an exterior workface with a leftward work direction. It has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending. Based on the technical features, such as the clipped fag ends, makes this basket likely to be Sierra Miwok.

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