Bread basket

Museum number:

1-10088

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010088

Alternate number:

197 (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:

Bread basket; Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Shallow and flaring, of 1-stick coiling technique with interlocking stitches. Design consists of a horizontal row of solid red inverted triangles at rim and a horizontal row of upwards-pointed red triangles beneath this first row.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Vallecito, Calaveras County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Calaveras; Vallecito

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Brake fern and Redbud

Taxon:

Cercis occidentalis, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Form approaches that of the regular bread basket, such as 1-10158 and 1-10152.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 10 centimeters and diameter 48.5 centimeters

Comment:

Materials: Cf. also Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 41. Photo: 15-4967. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 49. Context of use: "Form approaches that of the regular bread basket, such as 1-10158 and 1-10152".

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