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Cooking basket
Museum number:
1-2963
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010002963
Alternate number:
139 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.42
Object count:
1
Description:
Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Double zigzag bands in dark red.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Southern Valley Yokuts and Yokuts
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Brake fern and Sedge
Taxon:
Carex, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
May 2, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
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