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1949.3.34

Twined acorn hopper with warp of willow shoots and weft of split willow root with two horizontal bands of design in redbud both of which have a break or DAU (Central Pomo 'door'). Body reinforced with three bands of lattice twining; rim reinforced with oak sapling lashed on with redbud and willow. [ZM 16/2/2004]

1949.3.34

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Collection type
Object
Description
Twined acorn hopper with warp of willow shoots and weft of split willow root with two horizontal bands of design in redbud both of which have a break or DAU (Central Pomo 'door'). Body reinforced with three bands of lattice twining; rim reinforced with oak sapling lashed on with redbud and willow. [ZM 16/2/2004]
Cultural groups
Pomo
Person
Field collector Douglass
PRM source Denver Art Museum
PRM source Frederic Huntington Douglas
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1938
Date collected
By 1938
Acquisition information
Exchanged: 1949
Materials and processes
Material Plant Root, Material Willow Wood Plant, Material Oak Wood Plant, Material Redbud Plant, Process Twined Woven, Process Basketry
Dimensions
Diameter: max 559 mm, Height: max 165 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1949.3.34 Other numbers: YPo-118-P
Research and responses

Used with a mortar stone and pestle for pounding acorns into flour. Old specimen.

Associated publications
Illustrated in black and white as figure 60 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, Pomo. Twined hopper with warp of willow shoots and weft of split willow root with two horizontal bands of design in redbud both of which have a break of dau, (Central Pomo ‘door’). Body reinforced with three bands of lattice twining; rim reinforced with oak sapling lashed on with redbud and willow. Used with a mortar stone and pestle for pounding acorns into flour. H: 180 mm; dia: 550 mm. From Denver Art Museum by exchange (Douglass collection). 1949.3.34’ [MJD 18/01/2013]

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