Storage basket

Museum number:

1-10158

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010158

Alternate number:

277 (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:

Storage basket; Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Single-rod coiling. No decoration; damaged at the rim and has become quite completely black in color as a result of sustained damages.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

American Camp, Tuolumne County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Calaveras; American Camp

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Redbud and Willow (wood)

Taxon:

Cercis occidentalis and Salix

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Used as a general receptacle.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 10.5 centimeters and 41 centimeters

Comment:

Native name and meaning: "tewaiya". Materials: cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 41. Photo: 15-4877. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 48.

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