Treasure basket

Museum number:

1-10215

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

335 (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; twined. Warp is unpeeled Willow (Salix), weft is Willow. Elliptical in form, with a handle and a reinforcing (willow?) hoop at rim. Open diagonal twined, with no decoration.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Coulterville, Mariposa County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Mariposa; Coulterville

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Maker or artist:

Julian

Collector:

Charley Dick, Cozy Dick, and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Willow (wood)

Taxon:

Salix

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Treasure baskets and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Used as a receptacle for trinkets.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

diameter 17 centimeters and height 15 centimeters

Comment:

Said to be old fashioned." Native name and meaning: "tupula" - with handle. For materials, cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 40. Photo: 15-2782; 15-9111. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 53.

Loans:

S2008-2009 #1: Jackson Rancheria Band of Miwok Indians (September 4, 2008–December 1, 2011)

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