Cooking basket

Museum number:

1-9951

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010009951

Alternate number:

57 (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 Pine (Pinus). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Decoration: black rectangular designs in bracken fern root. 3-rod coiling with stitches split on interior face. Bottom has worn through, as has rim in 2 places.

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

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

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

Taxon:

Pinus, 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 in cooking and/or serving food.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 15.4 centimeters and diameter 25.2 centimeters

Comment:

Already old when collected in 1906. Native name and meaning: "hima". Materials, techniques: cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 38. Photo: 15-4879. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 43.

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