Basket
- Museum number:
- 1-10060
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010010060
- Alternate number:
- 167 (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:
- Basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Three stick basket with black design called yutappa, said to mean “hanging down”.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection place:
- Rail Road Flat, Calaveras County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Calaveras; Railroad Flat
- Culture or time period:
- Eastern Miwok
- Maker or artist:
- Matty Jim
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection date:
- 1906
- Materials:
- Brake fern, Redbud, Weft [reassign], and Willow (wood)
- Taxon:
- Cercis occidentalis, Pteris quilina, and Salix
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1906
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- height 14 centimeters
- Comment:
- Native name and meaning: pulisa (name for basket type); yutappa (name for design - said to mean "hanging down"). Photo: 15-4879. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 32.
- Loans:
- S1970-1971 #132: California State University, East Bay/Vera Mae Frederickson (May 17, 1971–April 10, 1972), S1973-1974 #53: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Lawrence E. Dawson (January 22, 1974–January 26, 1974), S1983-1984 #15: Lawrence E. Dawson/Lawrence E. Dawson (September 22, 1983–September 26, 1983), and S1999-2000 #3: Monterey Museum of Art (September 13, 1999–May 31, 2000)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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