Receptacle basket

Museum number:

1-10120

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010120

Alternate number:

236 (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:

Receptacle basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Willow and possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Interlocking stitches has a bit of cloth attached near rim. No decoration. Single rod coiling.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Sheep Ranch, Calaveras County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Calaveras; Sheep Ranch

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Maker or artist:

Limpy

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

August 30, 1906

Materials:

Maple (wood) and Willow (wood)

Taxon:

Acer macrophyllum and Salix

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Basketry (object genre) and Coiled weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Used as a general receptical. Traces of cloth on rim suggest that the basket may have been suspended in a manner similar to that described for 1-10104.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

diameter 25.4 centimeters and height 15.5 centimeters

Comment:

Cf. weave of this basket with that of 1-10107 and 10092. Native name and meaning: sotono. Materials: see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 39. Photo: 15-4970. Published: B.A.E. B78 pl. 76. Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 47.

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