Bowl basket

Museum number:

1-10378

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010378

Alternate number:

59 (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:

Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Very old, very worn cooking basket with grass foundation and bands of zigzag designs in black and red. The design on this basket called "measuring worm" or "inch worm" (fide Mrs. Silva, July 1973). Mended.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Secret Diggings, Calaveras County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Calaveras; Secret Diggings

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok and Yokuts

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Brake fern, Redbud, and Sedge

Taxon:

Carex, Cercis occidentalis, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Photo: 15-4965. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 76. "Said by owner to have been made far to the south." "Examined by Mrs. Silva..She noted the extensive wear and mending, but said she wouldn''t bother with such repair, would make a new one [probably voicing a cultural value, not personal opinion]." "mending is characteristically Miwok" fide Lawrence E. Dawson, 1972.

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