Cooking basket

Museum number:

1-10144

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ark:/21549/hm21010010144

Alternate number:

263 (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:

Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: disconnected horizontal red lines. Basket was described as being "very old" when it was collected in 1906.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Murphys, Calaveras County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Calaveras; Murphys

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Redbud and Willow (wood)

Taxon:

Cercis occidentalis and Salix

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Used as a cooking basket.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

diameter 34 centimeters and height 17 centimeters

Comment:

Described as being "very old" when it was collected in 1906. Native name and meaning: "hima" - generic term for kind of basket. Materials: cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 39. Context of use: Samuel A. Barrett noted that "these same "hima" were not used to cook in very much". Conservation: Basket has been mended at both the rim and the bottom.

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