Object class: Baskets (containers) / Media available: legacy documentation / Function: 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Apron, accession number 2-14952, described as Original description: Design is section of Chilkat blanket; totemic designs (4 raven heads) in twined mountain goat wool and some commercial yarn in orange, blue, black, white and yellow. Fringed. Per Bill Holm (1977) made by Mrs. Mary Hunt, daughter of the chief at Tongass. Her husband was Scottish-born employee of the Hudson Bay company. She made other textiles like this (in shape of Kwakiutl dance apron) for her children as dance aprons. Her son, George Hunt, was informant for Boas and many other anthropologists. George hunt married a Kwakiutl woman. Design in this is not Tlingit. No cedarbark in warp., Many other technical differences in manufacture of her weavings from conventional Tlingit (Chilkat) weavings.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-34312, described as Coiled. Black, brown, and tan geometric designs.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 18-1083, described as Container, food container: purple and green dyed, natural plaited “pandanus” rectangular container. Open work plaiting (decorative) at bottom of container with braid (single) 49.5 cm. long, knotted at end. 17 x 25 cm. (open plaiting forms triangle shape). Used as a container for gifts during rice harvest season. Filled with rice (hulled), or “empin” (a parched pounded rice product made only with newly harvested rice) and end sewn up. Used as a container for gifts to visitors (kin?) who help a family with harvest activities, probably ritual. No activities occurred during my [Don Lambert ?] research in which containers of this sort were required. These two containers (#42 and 43) are an example of an item people claim they used to make. I [Don Lambert ?] was unable to elicit a clear description of their former use, or exact rituals involved. Cost in U.S. dollars: 1.04. (see catalogue # 18-1084)

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-71355, described as Coiled, shallow. Circular red (very faded) design with black triangular designs above and below. Opening left in pattern on one side. Herringbone weave on rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-13993, described as Coiled, flat, shallow. Circular red design with black triangular designs above and below. One blank space left on one side.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-18389, described as Round, flat base, flaring sides, design of a red band with two bands of stepped design in black, on natural ground. Coiled, herringbone rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-14210, described as Coiled, shallow. Circular red (faded) design with black triangular designs above and below. Opening left in design on one side.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-34343, described as Coiled, shallow. 3 red-dyed courses with black dyed triangles above and below.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 18-1109, described as Basket: ritual harvesting basket. Bottom of basket square with four corners. Top of basket round, pulled in just below top. Dark brown, twill plaited rattan. Container for first rice harvest each season. Carried under arm. Used during rituals on first day of harvest only. Used by either men or women, but usually women. Made only by men. On the first day of harvest only one small basket is harvested in this type of “tanking,” the contents to be used for harvest rituals. Taboo of silence maintained from time of leaving house and returning with new rice. Cost in U.S. dollars: 1.66. Height 19 cm. Diameter of top opening 17 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-15995, described as Coiled, shallow. Circular red design with triangular designs in black above and below. ("Red" band faded to brown.) "Hupai weave, 10 stitches to the inch.

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