Carrying basket

Museum number:

1-10148

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010148

Alternate number:

267 (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:

Carrying basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Willow (Salix). The basket, which is diagonal twined, has a broken red cloth strap attached to it and a reinforcing willow hoop at the rim. There is no decoration. The point of the basket is worn through.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Murphys, Calaveras County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Calaveras; Murphys

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Hazel shoots and Willow (wood)

Taxon:

Corylus cornuta californica and Salix

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Carrying baskets and Twined weaving

Function:

1.4 Transportation

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Used in harvesting and transport of materials.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

diameter 39.2 centimeters and height 51 centimeters

Comment:

Described by Barrett in 1906, "old". Native name and meaning: "tcikele". Photo: 15-4878.

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