Mush basket

Museum number:

1-10282

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010282

Alternate number:

498 (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:

Feasting/mush basket. Coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Ceremonial basket, very large, with flaring sides. Coiled. Bands of deep red (redbud) diagonal zigzags and outlined diamond shapes. 3-rod coiling with split stitching on interior.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

South Central California

Verbatim coll. place:

California

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok and Maidu

Collector:

Johnnie Ephe, John Starkey, Samuel A. Barrett, and William Fuller

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Brake fern, Redbud, and Willow (wood)

Taxon:

Cercis occidentalis, Pteris quilina, and Salix

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Coiled weaving and Mush basket bowl

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Barrett notes that it was used exclusively for serving mush on ceremonial occasions. Typical of the kind of basket used by chiefs for serving food at feasts. "The basket...had been given as a wedding present to Johnnie Ephe...by his father-in-law...

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 57 centimeters and diameter 73 centimeters

Comment:

Materials: For further information, cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 42. Photo: 15-2773. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull., v. 2, pl. 40.

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