Bowl basket

Museum number:

1-10185

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010185

Alternate number:

305 (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:

Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Pattern is mud-dyed Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: horizontal and vertical zigzag patterns in brown. Coiled on a bundle foundation, with non-interlocking stitches. Bottom has been repaired, rim is damaged in several places and has been repaired along one break.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Chicken Ranch, Tuolumne County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Tuolumne; Chicken Ranch

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

Object class:

Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

No information.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 18.5 centimeters and diameter 40.5 centimeters

Comment:

Native name: pulakka - generic term for basket type. Photo: 15-4876. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 44. Remarks: For further info. cf. Supp. Cat. 1, p. 39.

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