Scoop

Museum number:
1-10104
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010104
Alternate number:
220 (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:
Scoop; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Executed in openwork twining technique. No decoration.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Sheep Ranch, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Sheep Ranch
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Maker or artist:
Limpy
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
August 30, 1906
Materials:
Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used as a general receptacle, particularly as a container which, when hung to the rafters, protected food and other goods from the depredations of mice.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 12 centimeters and diameter 29 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "owoyu" or "tcama". Materials: cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 38. Photo: 15-4967 and 15-9112. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 53.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Scoop, accession number 1-10104, described as Scoop; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Executed in openwork twining technique. No decoration.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Scoop, accession number 1-10104, described as Scoop; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Executed in openwork twining technique. No decoration.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Scoop, accession number 1-10104, described as Scoop; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Executed in openwork twining technique. No decoration.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Scoop, accession number 1-10104, described as Scoop; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Executed in openwork twining technique. No decoration.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Scoop, accession number 1-10104, described as Scoop; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Executed in openwork twining technique. No decoration.

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