Basket

Museum number:

1-10174

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010174

Alternate number:

294 (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; Warp is Epicampes weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Wide-mouthed with flaring sides. Decoration: diagonally crossing bands of black "flying geese." Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Rim is damaged at several spots.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Chicken Ranch, Tuolumne County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Tuolumne; Chicken Ranch

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Brake fern and Redbud

Taxon:

Cercis occidentalis, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers)

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

diameter 32 centimeters and height 17 centimeters

Comment:

Native name and meaning: "pulakka" - basket type; "lowota" - design name. For materials, cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 41. Photo: 15-4970. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 47.

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