Basket

Museum number:

1-2969

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010002969

Alternate number:

182 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.42

Object count:

1

Description:

Scoop-like diagonal twined basket. Made of split and peeled shoots. Two or three complex bands in red. Red material is Joshua Tree root. Damaged and mended.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

South Central California

Verbatim coll. place:

California

Culture or time period:

Tübatulabal

Collector:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection date:

1902

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving

Function:

1.2 Gathering

Accession date:

May 2, 1902

Context of use:

For gathering foodstuffs.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

length 27 centimeters

Comment:

Originally described as "old and mended.

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