Treasure basket

Museum number:

1-10267

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010267

Alternate number:

483 (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:

Trinket basket. Open, diagonal twined, with an attached cord. Decoration: 3 horizontal bands of red triangles. Red material is redbud.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Bald Rock, Tuolumne County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Tuolumne; Bald Rock

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

September 23, 1906

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Treasure baskets and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Hung on the wall and used as a general receptacle.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

length 34 centimeters and diameter 8.9 centimeters

Comment:

Native name: "tcini kulu". For other materials, cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 40. Context of use: Similar baskets, after application of 3 or 4 coats of soaproot juice (palawi) on baskets' exterior as waterproofing, were used to carry water when going out to gather acorns, etc. Water baskets are usually smaller-mouthed than this piece. "This is the olla supply." Lee Gravel reports that Bodie people used the same type of basket. Photo: 15-2782; 15-9111. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 53.

Loans:

S1975-1976 #54: National Park Service/Craig D. Bates (February 5, 1976–May 18, 1976)

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