Cooking basket

Museum number:

1-9934

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Alternate number:

40 (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 Sedge (Carex). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina).

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Ione, Amador County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Amador; Ione

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok and Plains Miwok

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Brake fern, Sedge, and Willow (wood)

Taxon:

Carex, Pteris quilina, and Salix

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Used as soup or water basket; basket is described as a "mush or dipper basket.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 14.7 centimeters and diameter 25.6 centimeters

Comment:

Described by Samuel A. Barrett as being old and fine. Native name and meaning: "pulakka" - generic term for kind of basket. Materials, techniques: For further information, cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 38.

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