Receptacle basket

Museum number:

1-10237

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010237

Alternate number:

359 (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; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Open diagonal twined with "strawberry weave" (one plain strand and one dark strand) achieving decorative banding effect. Decoration: four horizontal bands of black twining.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Wawona, Mariposa County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Mariposa; Wawona

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Maker or artist:

Old Susie

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Brake fern, Maple (wood), and Willow (wood)

Taxon:

Acer macrophyllum, Pteris quilina, and Salix

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Intended use as a general receptacle to be hung to means of a string "handle.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 18 centimeters and diameter 32.5 centimeters

Comment:

Described by Samuel A. Barrett in 1906 as being "new". Native name: "tupula". For materials, cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 39. From Barrett & Gifford, "Miwok Material Culture": "In this specimen the courses of twining pass back and forth close together, so that they appear like braiding". Photo: 15-5973; neg. # 5973. Published: 1) Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 52. 2) Barrett & Gifford, "Miwok Material Culture (Indian Life of the Yosemite Region)".

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