Basket

Museum number:

1-399

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Alternate number:

96 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.13

Object count:

1

Description:

Coiled basket. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge root (Carex). Black pattern is Sedge root bark. Blue and white beads in V shaped patterns, etc.

Donor:

John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Sonoma; Alexander Valley

Culture or time period:

Wappo

Collector:

John Preston Stanley and Philip Mills Jones

Collection date:

1900-1901

Materials:

Sedge and Willow (wood)

Taxon:

Carex and Salix

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

August 1901

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

diameter 16 centimeters and height 8 centimeters

Comment:

For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 61.

Loans:

S1963-1964 #4: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Vincent Evans (July 29, 1963–July 29, 1963)

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