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1940.6.2

Food basket. Single rod coil, design of chevrons and triangles on inside; TSAI technique. Held acorn meal when collected. [MOBB [OPS move] 9/11/2016]

1940.6.2

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Collection type
Object
Description
Food basket. Single rod coil, design of chevrons and triangles on inside; TSAI technique. Held acorn meal when collected. [MOBB [OPS move] 9/11/2016]
Geographical reference
United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America
Central California Sonoma County
Person
Field collector Rebecca Fowler
PRM source Alice Burtt Davy
PRM source Joseph Burtt Davy
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1850?, uncertain
Date collected
?circa 1850
Acquisition information
Donated: 1940
Materials and processes
Material Willow Wood Plant, Material Redbud Plant, Process Coiled, Process Basketry, Process Repaired (local)
Dimensions
Height: max 115 mm, Diameter: max 315 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1940.6.2
Research and responses

Originally entered as S. Pomo. Ascribed to S. Pomo, Coast Miwok or Patwin by Sally McLendon, Hunter College, CUNY, 1992. She describes it as follows: `One-rod coiled basket, foundation of willow shoots sewn with sedge and redbud. Coiled to the left.'

Associated publications
Illustrated in black and white as figure 59 on page 58 of Basketmakers Meaning and Form in Native American Baskets, edited by Linda Mowat, Howard Morphy and Penny Dransart (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University if Oxford, Mongraph 5, 1992). Caption reads: ‘USA, Central California, Sonoma Country, near Healdsburg, ?Southern Pomo, Coast Miwok or Patwin. One-rod coiled basket, foundation of willow shoots sewn with sedge and redbud. Coiled to the left. Said to have contained acorn meal when collected. H: 103 mm; dia: 310 mm. Collected by Mrs. Stephen Fowler, one of the earliest settlers in the area, c. 1850. Donated by her daughter Mrs. Joseph Burtt Davy (formerly Alice Bolton). 1940.6.2’ [MJD 18/01/2013]

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