Basket

Museum number:

1-10295

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010295

Alternate number:

511 (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; twined. Warp is unpeeled Willow (Salix), weft is Willow. Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Willow handle and rim. Elliptical in form, with handle. Moderately open diagonal twine; deep red rectangular designs.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Soulsbyville, Tuolumne County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Tuolumne; Soulsbyville

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

Louisa Butcher and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Redbud and Willow (wood)

Taxon:

Cercis occidentalis and Salix

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 19 centimeters and 19.5 centimeters

Comment:

Native name and meaning: "owoyu" - basket type; "sakalu" - willow stems; "sa iyi" - pine (sugar?); "tapatapu" - redbud. In his field notes, Samuel A. Barrett remarks that this basket does not conform to the "aboriginal form".

Loans:

S1973-1974 #53: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Lawrence E. Dawson (January 22, 1974–January 26, 1974)

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