Basket

Museum number:

1-10133

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010133

Alternate number:

252 (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:

Leaching basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Willow hoop. Flat and triangular in form, with a thick reinforcing hoop around the rim. Open diagonal twined, with no decoration.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Avery, Calaveras County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Calaveras; Avery

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Maple (wood) and Willow (wood)

Taxon:

Acer macrophyllum and Salix

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Used as a general receptacle, for leaching manzanita cider, and for draining clover.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

43 centimeters and length 59 centimeters

Comment:

Native name and meaning: "tcama" - generic name for this kind of basket. Materials: cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 37.

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