Basket

Museum number:

1-4038

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Alternate number:

1036 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.114

Object count:

1

Description:

Basket; twined. Warp is redbud (Cercis occidentalis), weft is possibly redbud. Red pattern is also redbud.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Picayune rancheria, Madera County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

from the Chukchansi at Picyuna (Katanin) 5 m from coarse Gold, Madera county.

Culture or time period:

Chukchansi

Collector:

Alfred L. Kroeber

Collection date:

January 8-17, 1904

Materials:

Redbud

Taxon:

Cercis occidentalis

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1904

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 16.5 centimeters and diameter 19.5 centimeters

Comment:

Native name: "coutat", "K!entais" (watersnake design). Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 6.

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