Carrying basket

Museum number:

1-10091

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

200 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254

Object count:

1

Description:

Carrying basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Hazel.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Murphys, Calaveras County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Calaveras; Murphys

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

August 29, 1906

Materials:

Hazel shoots

Taxon:

Corylus cornuta californica

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Carrying baskets and Twined weaving

Function:

1.4 Transportation

Accession date:

1906

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 35 centimeters and diameter 29 centimeters

Comment:

Remarks: Samuel A. Barrett, on p. 233 of Barrett & Gifford, "Miwok Material Culture", refers to this as "the only Miwok basket which employs hazel for both warp and woof".

Loans:

S1966-1967 #122: Design (UC Berkeley) (June 22, 1967–August 1, 1967)

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