Basket

Museum number:

1-320

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Alternate number:

17 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.13

Object count:

1

Description:

Feathered truncate-cone coiled basket with broken black band around bottom. Feathers include western blue bird (blue), mallard (black), pileated woodpecker (red), and meadow lark (yellow). White, red, blue glass beads and abalone shell pendants on cotton string. Clam shell beads at rim. Wefts are sedge with black dyed bracken fern broken band near base; probable willow warps.

Donor:

John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Booneville, Mendocino County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Mendocino; Booneville

Culture or time period:

Pomo

Collector:

John Preston Stanley and Philip Mills Jones

Collection date:

February 1900

Materials:

Cotton (textile) (string), Feather (material) (decoration), Fern, Glass (material) (beads (decoration)), Sedge (weft), Shell (animal material) (decoration), and Willow (wood) (warp, probably willow)

Taxon:

Anas platyrhynchos, Carex barbarae, Dryocopus pileatus, Gossypium hirsutum, Haliotis, Pteridium aquilinum, Salix, Saxidomus nutalli, Sialia mexicana, and Sturnella neglecta

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving

Accession date:

August 1901

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 9 centimeters and diameter 20.2 centimeters

Loans:

S1971-1972 #53: UC Berkeley Extension/Daphne D. Stern (November 18, 1971–November 18, 1971), S1972-1973 #55: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (January 31, 1973–February 8, 1973), S1973-1974 #18: Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (September 26, 1973–March 19, 1974), S2008-2009 #9a: SFO Museum (February 11, 2009–January 11, 2010), and S2018-2019 #4: Bundeskunsthalle (August 27, 2019–January 16, 2020)

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